Anchor and Hart Alley

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

North out of Aldgate High Street, near the eastern boundary of Portsoken Ward and within the ward. "Anchor and Hart Alley" (O. and M. 1677). "Anchor and Harp Alley" (Strype, 1720 and 1755).


Site rebuilt and seems now covered by Nos. 36 and 38 Aldgate High Street.

Name derived from the sign, or perhaps from the union of two signs.

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