Dartmouth Street
Names
- Dartmouth Street
Street/Area/District
- Dartmouth Street
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): Dartmouth Street
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Dartmouth Street
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Dartmouth Street
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Dartmouth str. betn Tuttle str. Westm. S. and Queen str. N. L 120 Yds.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
Dartmouth-street, a very handsome open Street, graced with good Buildings, fit for the Reception of Gentry; the upper End of it butts against St. John's-street, being a Row of new built Houses; the other Side as yet lying without any Cellars digged, and Foundations laid, except towards the End that falls into Tuthil-street.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Dartmouth street, Tothill street.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Dartmouth-Street, Westminster,—the first on the L. in Queen-st. from 25, Princes-street, extending to Tothill-street, or the first on the R. in Tothill-st. from the abbey.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Dartmouth-St., Westminster, is the first turning on the right hand in Tuthill-street from the Abbey.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Dartmouth Street, Westminster, north side of Tothill Street to Great Queen Street, was so called out of compliment to William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth (the annotator of Burnet), whose house, in 1708, was in Queen Square, Westminster.3
Hatton, p. 626.