Love Lane, Aldermanbury

Love Lane, Aldermanbury
   West from Aldermanbury, at No. 66, to 36 Wood Street (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate Ward Within.
   First mention: S. ed. 1598, p. 231.
   The part north and east of St. Albans Church, now called "Little Love Lane," was all called "Love Lane" in Strype's time (ed. 1720, I. iii. 90) and in 1755 ed.
   Part of it is called "Great Love Lane" in P.C. 1732.
   So called of wantons, Stow says (ed. 1603, p. 298). But why not after an owner named "Love"?

A Dictionary of London. . 1918.

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