- Whalebone Passage
- North out of Tokenhouse Yard, a narrow footway (L.C.C. List, 1912).Leading into Whalebone Court, Moorgate Street Buildings (q.v.), hence the name.
A Dictionary of London. Henry A Harben. 1918.
Whalebone Passage
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