Fleet Lane
Names
- Fleet Lane
- Fletlaune
- Flete Lane
- Old Fleet Lane
Street/Area/District
- Fleet Lane
Maps & Views
- 1553-59 London (Strype, 1720): Fleet Lane
- 1553-9 Londinum (Braun & Hogenberg, 1572): Fleet Lane
- 1553-9 London ("Agas Map" ca. 1633): Fleete lane
- 1553-9 London ("Agas Map" ca. 1633): Flete lane
- 1560 London (Jansson, 1657): Fleet Lane
- 1593 London (Norden, 1653 - British Library): Fleet Lane
- 1593 London (Norden, 1653 - Folger): Fleet Lane
- 1666 London after the fire (Bowen, 1772): Fleet Lane
- 1720 London (Strype): Fleet Lane
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Fleet Lane
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Fleet Lane
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Fleet Lane
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Fleet Lane
West out of Old Bailey at Nos. 45 and 25 to No. 16 Farringdon Street (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Without.
First mention: "Fletlaune," 1544 (Lond. I. p.m. II. 93).
Other forms: "Flete Lane," 1562–3 (Ct. H.W. II. 680).
Perhaps identical with "a lane without Newgate going towards the Fleet," 49 H. III. (Anc. Deeds, A. 2328).
"High street by which one goes to the prison of Flete," 23 H. VI. (ib. B. 2176).
The lane was cut in two in the 19th century by the formation of the L.C. and Dover Railway lines.
In Stow's time the eastern end out of Old Bailey to Seacole Lane was called "St George's Lane." New Inn formerly stood here. But being decayed was moved near Clement's Inn (S. 374–5 and 391).
Named from the Fleet (q.v.).
See Smale Lane.