Saracen's Head

Names

  • Saracen's Head
  • Sarsons Hedd
  • Sarazens Head Inn
  • Sarsons Head

Street/Area/District

  • Little Carter Lane

Maps & Views

Descriptions

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

Saracen's Head

South out of Little Carter Lane in parish of St. Mary Magdalene in the ward of Castle Baynard (O. and M. 1677–Strype, 1755).

First mention: "The Sarsons Hedd," 36 H. VIII. 1544 (L. and P. H. VIII. XIX. (i), p. 638).

Not mentioned in Maitland, 1775.

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

Sarazens head inn, on the S. side of Little Carter lane, near Old change.

from London Signs, by Bryant Lillywhite (1972)

"Saracens Head in Carter Lane" near St. Pauls Churchyard. Inn. 1637–66; "Sarsons head in Carter Lane" 1673; “Sarazens Head Inn Little Carter Lane" 1677; "Sarazens-head in Carter Lane" 1681–1720.