Great Cock Alley

Names

  • Great Cock Alley
  • Cock Alley
  • Cock Yard
  • New Court

Street/Area/District

  • Great Cock Alley

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Descriptions

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

Great Cock Alley

North out of Fore Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without, and east to White Cross Street (Rocque, 1746–Strype, ed. 1755).

Called "Cock Alley," "Cock Yard" (O. and M. 1677, and Boyle, 1799). "New Court" in Horwood.

Site now occupied by Midland Railway goods' station and offices.

from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)

Cock Alley, on the Nly side of Red Cross str. just without Cripplegate, and Cock Yard at the same place.

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

Great Cock Alley or Yard, a good large Place, indifferent Building, and hath a passage into Whitecross street.

from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)

Great Cock alley, 1. Fore street, Cripplegate. 2. Redcross street.