Long Lane

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

West out of Aldersgate Street to West Smithfield (P.O. Directory). In Aldersgate Ward and Farringdon Ward Without.


First mention: 24 H. VIII. (Anc. Deeds, B. 3622).

It formed one of the boundaries of Great St. Bartholomew's Close in 36 H. VIII. (L. and P. H. VIII. XIX. (1), p. 376).

So called for its length (S. 382, and Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 122).

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