(St.) Dunstan's Lane

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

Identified with St. Dunstan's Hill.


Tenements in St. Dunstan's Lane in parish of St. Dunstan's in the east, 31 H. VIII. 1529, Lond. I. p.m. (L. and M. Arch. Soc. Trans. VII. p. 64).

Former names : "Dunstonelane," 1329 (Ct. H.W. I. 351). "Seint Dunstoneslane," 1363, 37 Ed. III. (Cal. P.R. Ed. III. 1361-4, p. 437).

In the Endowed Charities Report relating to St. Dunstan's in the East, 1902, it is stated that Sir Bartholomew James gave to the parson and churchwardens of the parish by his will, dated 1481, his great tenement or messuage in "St. Dunstan's Lane." This property is identified with three houses on St. Dunstan's Hill (q.v.).

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