Chequer Yard

Names

  • Chequer Yard
  • Carter Lane
  • Chequer Alley
  • Chequer Lane

Street/Area/District

  • Chequer Yard

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Descriptions

from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)

Chequer Yard

East out of Dowgate Hill to Bush Lane. In Dowgate Ward (O. and M. 1677) (Midd. Sess. Roll. 4 Chas. I. III. 165).

Former names: "Chequer Alley" or "lane," 1598 (S. 233). "Carter lane" previously (ib.).

Demolished 1860–5 for the erection of Cannon Street Station.

Named after the Chequer Inn, which stood on the south side of the yard. Plumbers' Hall also stood on the south side of the yard.

Stow says Chequer Yard used to be called Carter Lane, of carts and Carmen having stables there (S. 233).