Lollesworth

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

A field belonging to the Bishop of London near St. Mary Spital, now known as Spitalfields (q.v.) (S. 168 and 170).


Fountain called "Snekockeswelle" in field called "Lollesworthe" in parish of Stepney, granted by the bishop of London to the new Hospital of St. Mary without Bishopsgate to be enclosed with a stone wall and the water led underground along the bed of the old ditch which runs westward almost to the south corner of the garden of the Hospital, 1279 (Hist. MSS. Com. 9th Rep. App. p. 29).

See Lolesworth's Lane.