Red Lion Court

Names

  • Red Lion Court
  • Red Lyon Alley
  • Red Lion Alley

Street/Area/District

  • Red Lion Court

Maps & Views

Descriptions

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

Red Lion Court

East out of Minories, west of Morley's Court (P.C. 1732–O.S. 25 in. 1880). In Portsoken Ward.

On the boundary of the Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 26).

Former names: "Red Lyon Alley," 1658 (Midd. Sess. Rolls, III. 273–Rocque, 1746). "Red Lion Alley" (Hatton, 1708–Strype, 1720).

It is differently planned in the earlier maps, running east and west, instead of north and south as in the O.S.

Site is now covered by Railway goods' depôts.

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

Red lion alley, on the E. side of the Minories, near Tower hill.

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

Red Lion Alley, long and narrow, with old built Houses.