Harp Lane
Names
- Harp Lane
- Harpe Lane
- Hart Lane
- le Harpe
Street/Area/District
- Harp Lane
Maps & Views
- 1553-59 London (Strype, 1720): Harp Lane
- 1553-9 Londinum (Braun & Hogenberg, 1572): Harp Lane
- 1553-9 London ("Agas Map" ca. 1633): Harpe lane
- 1560 London (Jansson, 1657): Harp Lane
- 1666 London after the fire (Bowen, 1772): Harp Lane
- 1720 London (Strype): Harp Lane
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Harp Lane
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Harp Lane
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Harp Lane
South out of Great Tower Street to Lower Thames Street (P.O. Directory). In Tower Ward.
Earliest mention: "Harpe Lane," 34 H. VIII. 1543 (L. and P. H. VIII. XVIII. Pt. 1, p. 129).
Other name: "Hart lane" (S. 135).
"Hart lane," called at first "Harp Lane," 1657 (Howel, p. 49).
There was a messuage with a garden in the parish of St. Dunstan in the East in Tower Street in 1543 called "le Harpe" adjoining Harpe lane, giving name to the lane.
It is interesting to note that there is now at No. 13 a public house called the "Harp," which might conceivably be on the site of part of the garden of this messuage (See L. and P.H. VIII. D.S. Vol. XVIII. Pt. 1, p. 129).
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Harp-Lane, Lower Thames-street, is the sixth turning on the left hand going from London-bridge.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Harp-Lane, Lower-Thames-Street,—at 77, the sixth on the L. about ⅕ of a mile from London-bridge, it extends to 19, Great Tower-st.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Harp Lane, Lower Thames Street to Great Tower Street.
Then is there Hart Lane for Harpe Lane, which runneth down into Thames Street. In this Hart Lane is the Bakers' Hall, sometime the dwelling-house of John Chichley, Chamberlain of London.—Stow, p. 51.
Bakers' Hall is No. 16, the east side of Harp Lane.