- Whitefriars Street
- South out of Fleet Street, at No.67, to Tudor Street (P.O Directory). So named 1844.Former name: Water Lane" (Leake, 1666-Elmes, 1831). In O. and M. it extended south to the Thames.
A Dictionary of London. Henry A Harben. 1918.
Whitefriars Street
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