Cock and Key Alley

Names

  • Cock and Key Alley

Street/Area/District

  • Cock and Key Alley

Descriptions

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

Cock and Key Alley

Near Water Lane, Whitefriars, in Farringdon Ward Without.

In a Wardmote Inquest, 1560, the inhabitants of this Alley were presented for throwing filth and rubbish out of their windows into Water Lane (now Whitefriars Street). (Trans L. and M. Arch. Soc. N.S. III. (1), p. 61).