The White Swan

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

A messuage called the White Swan. In Great Eastcheap in parish of St. Leonard upon Fish street hill, devised for the use of the parish of St. Clement Eastcheap, and a little stable with the appurtenances in St. Leonard's parish called the White horse.


(Indenture of 1620 quoted in End. Charities Rep. St. Clement's parish, 1903, p.2).

In 1491 these premises are described in the Will of Robert Halliday as consisting of two tenements with an alley and certain edifices between the tenements (ib. 1).

Sold under the Act, 1829, for the formation of the approaches to the new London Bridge (ib. 2).

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