Vinegar Yard
Names
- Vinegar Yard
- Vine Yard
- Vine Garden Yard
- Vineyard
Street/Area/District
- Vinegar Yard
Maps & Views
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Vinegar yard, on the SW. side of Drury lane, toward the SEly end.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
Vinegar Yard, indifferent broad, but ordinarily built and inhabited: It falleth into Little Bridges-street, and that into Great Bridges-street, in Covent Garden Parish. Out of Vinegar Yard is an open Freestone Passage into Russel Court.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Vinegar yard, Drury lane.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Vine-Yard, Drury-Lane. See Wooburn-Street.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Vine-yard.—is in Drury lane.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Vinegar Yard, Drury Lane, properly Vine Garden Yard, or Vineyard, was built circ. 1621.[2]
February 4, 1624.—Buried Blind John out of Vinagre Yard.—Burial Register of St. Mart Ms- in -the- Fields.
In the Beggar's Opera this yard is mentioned as a rival to Lewknor's Lane and Hockley in the Hole; and in Pope's " nstructions to a Porter how to find Mr. Curll's authors," "the schoolmaster with carbuncles on his nose" is made a resident of "the Hercules and Hell in Vinegar Yard." Clayrender's letter, in Roderick Random, to her "Dear Kreeter," is written from "Wingar Yeard, Droory Lane." Its contiguity to the theatre is not overlooked in the Rejected Addresses:—
And one, the leader of the band,
From Charing Cross along the Strand,
Like stag by beagles hunted hard,
Ran till he stopp'd at Vin'gar Yard.
"The Crown Tavern," in the yard, was a favourite place of "The Eccentrics," a celebrated Club of Londoners, who allowed drink and eccentricities to prevail. The club does not now exist.
2. Rate-books of St. Martin's.