Great Prescott Street

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

East from 95 Mansell Street to 104 Leman Street (P.O. Directory). In Goodman's Fields.


Former names : "Prescott street" (Hatton, 1708, and Strype's maps, 1720). "Peasecod street " (Strype, 1720, I. ii. 28). "Prescod street " (P.C. 1732). "Prescot street (Rocque, 1746 ; Boyle, 1799). "Gt. Prescott street" (Horwood, 1799).

It seems to have been one of the first streets in which the houses were distinguished by numbers, instead of signs, as Hatton in his description of the street in 1708 mentions this as worthy of note at that time, the staircases in the Inns of Court and Chancery being also likewise distinguished.

Named after the builder.

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