Wellclose Square
Names
- Wellclose Square
- Weld Close
- Well Close
- Marine Square
- Wells Close
Street/Area/District
- Wellclose Square
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): Wells Close
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Wells Close
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Well Close Square
- 1799 London (Horwood): Well Close Square
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Wellclose Square
At Nos. 71 and 72 St. George Street, in the Borough of Stepney, outside the City boundary (P.O. Directory).
Earliest mention: P.C. 1732.
Former names: "Weld Close," 1667 (L. and P. Chas. II. 1667–8, p. 143). "Well Close," 1686 (Tomlinson's Hist. of the Minories, p. 182). "Well Close," now known as "Marine Square," 1694 (L. and P. Wm. III. Dom. S. V.p. 91, and P.C. 1732).
The name of the close is thus perpetuated in the name of the Square at the present day.