Gunpowder Alley or Court, Crutched Friars

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

East out of Crutched Friars, north of John Street (Wheatley).


First mention: "Gunpowder Alley" (Westward Ho, 1607, quoted by Wheatley).

Oxford's Almshouses there in 1720 (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 83).

Not named in the maps.

Site now occupied by business houses.

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