George Yard
Names
- George Yard
Street/Area/District
- George Yard
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): George Yard
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): George Yard
- 1748 Exchange Alley, Cornhill (Gentleman's Magazine): George Yard
- 1748 Exchange Alley, Cornhill (London Magazine): George Yard
- 1799 London (Horwood): George Yard
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
George Yard
North out of Lombard Street at No. 56 (P.O. Directory). In Langbourn Ward.
First mention: O. and M. 1677.
Passages to Birchin Lane and Cornhill (Hatton, 1708), and to St. Michael's Alley (Lockie, 1810).
Strype says it occupies the site of the George Inn, which was rebuilt after the Fire as this Yard with good houses and warehouses (ed. 1720, I. ii. 156).
The George and Vulture Tavern stood at the further end after the rebuilding.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
George-Yard, Lombard-Street,—at 56, N. side, about fourteen doors on the R. from 23, Gracechurch-street, it leads to St. Michael's alley and 44, Cornhill.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
George-Yard—is on the north side of Lombard-street, about fourteen houses on the right hand from Gracechurch-street; it leads into St. Michael's-alley and Cornhill.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
George Yard, Lombard Street.
Near Ball Alley was the George Inn; since the Fire rebuilt with very good houses, well inhabited; and warehouses; being a large open yard, and called George Yard: at the farther end of which is the George and Vulture tavern; which is a large house and of a great trade, having a passage into St. Michael's Alley.—Strype B. ii. p. 162.
The George and Vulture, Castle Court, just off George Yard, is well known to the readers of the Pickwick Papers. No. 4 is the Dentside Bank.