Cock Alley

Names

  • Cock Alley

Street/Area/District

  • Cock Alley

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Descriptions

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

Cock Alley

East out of Moor Lane, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677–Elmes, 1831).

The site is now covered by Moorgate Street Station and the Metropolitan Railway lines.

Named after a house called the Sign of the Cock in Moor Lane, given for the Poor of the Parish.

from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)

Cock Alley, very small and mean.