Warwick Lane

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

South out of Newgate Street, at No.9, to Paternoster Row (P.O. Directory). In Castle Baynard Ward and Farringdon Ward Within. First mention: I Eliz. 1559, "Warwyck Lane" (Lond. I. p.m. I. 173).


Former name : " Eldenese lane," now called "Warwicke Lane" (S. 344). " Old Dean's Lane" (q.v.) (Lond. I. p.m. ib.).

"Warwick Inne" stood there, in which Richard Nevill, Earl of Warwick, lodged, 36 H. VI. (MS. Rob. Fabian, S. 88).

On the house at the corner of Newgate Street is a stone effigy of Guy Earl of Warwick, with the date ,668.

So called of Warwicke Inne (S. 344).

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