Red Lyon Yard

Names

  • Red Lyon Yard
  • Red Lion Yard

Street/Area/District

  • Red Lyon Yard

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Descriptions

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

Red Lyon Yard

North out of Long Lane to Red Lyon Inn at No. 110 Aldersgate Street, in Aldersgate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677–Elmes, 1831).

The site is now occupied by the Aldersgate Street Station and railway lines.

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

Red lion yard, on the Nly side of Long lane, near Aldersgate str.

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

[Red Lion Yard.] Red Lion Inn, hath a large Yard for Stabling and Coaches; and hath a passage into the Charter house Yard, and another into Goswel street.

from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)

Red Lion yard, Long lane, Smithfield. ✽