Playhouse Yard

Playhouse Yard
   South out of Barbican, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1755).
   So called for that here was a Play House in former days (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 93-4).

A Dictionary of London. . 1918.

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