Rose Court, Tower Street

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

South out of Great Tower Street at No. 41. In Tower Ward (P.O. Directory).


Earliest mention: O. and M. 1677.

Part of it was called "Chitterling Alley" in O. and M. 1677, and Strype, 1755.

On the east side of Beer Lane, a passage to Tower Street near Custom House (Hatton, 1708).

Seems to have been named from the Rose Tavern, No.43 Great Tower Street (Maskell, 165) destroyed by an explosion of gunpowder, 1649 (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 36).

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