- The Skomer
- A messuage so called in Birchin lane in parish of St. Michael in Cornhill, 1543 (L. and P. H. VIII. XVIII. (1), 199).No later reference.
A Dictionary of London. Henry A Harben. 1918.
The Skomer
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