Little Shear Lane
Names
- Little Shear Lane
- Little Shire Lane
Street/Area/District
- Little Shear Lane
Maps & Views
- 1677 A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London (Ogilby & Morgan): Little Shear Lane
- 1720 London (Strype): Little Shear Lane
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Little Shear Lane
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Little Sheer lane, betn Boswel court W. and Sheer lane E.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
[Little Shear Lane.] Ship Yard, a Throughfare into little Shear Lane, with a pretty broad Passage; ... Crown Court hath an open Air about the midst, and leadeth into little Shear Lane. Bear and Harrow Court, so called from such a Sign, a noted Eating House, at the Entrance into it.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Shire-Lane (Little), Temple-Bar,—about fifteen doors on the L. in the last [Great Shire Lane], from Fleet-st. leading to Old Boswell-court.
from A Topographical Dictionary of England, Vol. I, by Samuel Lewis (1831)
Shire-Lane, Little, Temple-bar, is about fifteen houses on the left hand in the last described [Great Shire Lane].