Kennet Wharf

Names

  • Kennet Wharf
  • Black Swan Alley

Street/Area/District

  • Kennet Wharf

Maps & Views

Descriptions

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

Kennet Wharf

On the Thames, at No. 67 Upper Thames Street (P.O. Directory). Opposite Garlick Hill. In Vintry Ward.

First mention: Horwood, 1799.

Former name: "Black Swan Alley" (Leake, 1666–Strype, 1755).

Devised in 1517 to the Brewers' Company, as "messuages, tenements, gardens and wharfs" (End. Ch. Rep. St. James, Garlick Hill, 1902, p. 4).