- Maidenhead Court
- 1) West out of Grub Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Strype, 1720-Boyle, 1799).Former name : "Maidenhead Alley" (O. and M. 1677-Hatton, 1708).British School on site, O.S. 1880.The site is now occupied by offices and business houses.See Silk Street.2) In Half Moon Alley in Bishopsgate Street, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (P.C. 1732).Not named in the maps.3) East out of Aldersgate Street, at No. 30, to Nicholl Square, in Cripplegate Ward Without and Aldersgate Ward Without (P.O. Directory).First mention: O. and M. 1677.Qy. = "Lambe Alley," alias "Mayden alley."See Lamb, Lambe Alley.4) East out of Moor Lane to Green Arbour Court, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-O.S. 1880)."Maidenhead Alley," in Hatton, 1708, a passage to Little Moorfields.In some of the maps it communicates with Half Moon Alley, north of Green Arbour Court.The site is now occupied by Fore Street Avenue (q.v.).5) North out of Great Easteheap, west of Gracechurch Street (Strype, 1720-Boyle, 1799).Removed c. 1831 for the formation of King William Street and the enlargement of the roadway at its junction with Gracechurch Street.6) South out of London Wall, in Broad Street Ward (Strype, 1720-Boyle, 1799)."Maidenhead Alley" (O. and M. 1677-Hatton, 1708).A passage to Drapers' Gardens.The site is now occupied by warehouses.7) West out of Wood Street, in Cripplegate Ward Within (O. and M.. 1677-Boyle, 1799).Strype describes it as in his time a handsome square place, with good buildings and a gate to shut up at nights (ed. 1720, I. iii. 92).The site is now covered by warehouses and offices.8) In St. Katherine's precinct. North out of Great Garden Street (Rocque, 1746-Horwood, 1799).Former name : "Maidenhead Alley" (P.C. 1732).Removed for the formation of St. Katherine Docks and the adjacent warehouses in 1827.9) North out of Little Saint Thomas Apostles at No. 19. In Cordwainer Ward (O. and M. 1677-Elmes, 1831).Removed for the western extension of Cannon Street 1865.
A Dictionary of London. Henry A Harben. 1918.
