Cursitor Street
Names
- Cursitor Street
- Cursitors Alley
Street/Area/District
- Cursitor Street
Maps & Views
- 1666 Plan for Rebuilding the City (Wren), 1724: Cursitors Ally
- 1720 London (Strype): Cursitors Alley
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Cursitores Alley
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Cursitors Alley
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Cursitor Alley
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Cursitor Street
East out of Chancery Lane at No. 38. Only a small portion lies in Farringdon Ward Without, the rest is in the borough of Holborn and the city of Westminster (P.O. Directory).
First mention: Horwood, 1799.
Former name: "Cursitors Alley," 1671 (L. and P. Chas. II. XI. p. 483).
Named from the Cursitor's Office kept there.