Plough Yard, Lombard Street
- Plough Yard, Lombard Street
See Plough Court. Plough Yard-West out of Seething Lane (L.C.C. Streets, 1912).
"Plow Yard," a school built there for education of twenty poor children before 1689 (Maskell, p.95).
Founded by James Hickson about 1689.
The Transport Office was kept here in Strype's time (ed. 1720, I. ii. 53).
Site has been rebuilt and now occupied by offices and business houses.
A Dictionary of London.
Henry A Harben.
1918.
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