Blanch Appleton Court

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

East out of Mark Lane, near Fenchurch Street. In Aldgate Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 82).


Other names : "Blind Chapel Court" (Hatton, 1708). "Blanch Chaplin Court" (Strype's maps, 1720 and 1755).

A tradesman's token bearing the Cooper's Company Arms was issued to a house in this Court, 1649-72 (Burn, 28).

The name was derived from the manor and messuage called Blanch Appleton (q.v.) which occupied the site of this court and the neighbourhood.

Site rebuilt for offices and chambers.

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