Delahay Street

Names

  • Delahay Street
  • De La Hay Street
  • Delahay’s Street

Street/Area/District

  • Delahay Street

Maps & Views

Descriptions

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

[De La Hay Street.] At the South End of this [Duke] Street is seated a large House, made Use of for the Admiralty Office, until it was thence removed to Wallingford House against White-hall, as more convenient, and built at King William's Charge. This House was first built for the late Lord Jeffreys, Lord Chancellor to King James the Seond, and for his Accommodation the said King permitted a fair Pair of Freestone Stairs to be made into the Park. Then passing by this House on the same Side, beginneth a short Street called De la Hay Street, which falleth into Long Ditch, so called from the Ditch which almost encompassed this Part of Westminster, now all dryed up, and converted into Streets and Houses; a Place of no great Account for Houses or Inhabitants.

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

Delahay’s street, by Duke’s street, Westminster. †

from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)

Delahay-Street, Great George-Street, Westminster,—at 34, the first on the R. from King-st. towards the Park, extending to Duke-st.

from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)

Delahay Street, Westminster, from Great George Street to Duke Street, so called from a family of that name long resident in St. Margaret's parish. Here lived Bishop Atterbury's son-in-law and correspondent, William Morrice, Esq., High Sheriff of Westminster.