The Maidenhead

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

1) A messuage so called in parish of St. Laurence in Old Jewry, in ward of Cheap adjoining the "Ledden porche" on the east and Blackwell Hall on the north, 1566 (Lond. I. p.m. II. 79).


The Maiden Head in St. Laurence Lane, near the Church, 1622 (H. MSS. Com. 12th Rep. I. 119). There was also the "Mayden Hedd" at Yeeld Hall Gate in London in 1596-7 (H. MSS. Com. Salisbury, VII. 118).

2) In St. Katherine's precinct. On the boundary of Portsoken Ward as set out by Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 27.

Qy. on site of Maidenhead Court (q.v.).

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