Green Man Yard

Green Man Yard
   West out of Coleman Street, a little south from London Wall (Lockie, 1816).
   Not named in the maps.
   The sign from which the name is derived was intended generally to denote a forester, although it was sometimes used to denote the green, wild, or wood men of pageants.

A Dictionary of London. . 1918.

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