Mercer Street
Names
- Mercer's Street
- Mercers Street
- Mercer Street
Street/Area/District
- Mercer Street
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): Mercer Street
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Mercer Street
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Mercer Street
Descriptions
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Mercer's-St., Long-acre, is the first turning on the left hand going from St. Martin's-lane; it leads into Seven Dials, and receives its name from being the property of the Mercers' Company.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Mercers-Street, Long-Acre,—at 123, the first on the L. from St. Martin's lane, it leads to Little White-lion-st. and Seven-Dials.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Mercer Street, Long Acre to White Lion Street, Seven Dials, so called from the Mercers' Company, the owners of the ground on which it stands. In the Parliamentary Survey, 1650, it is described as having ten tenements on its west side, worth £250 per annum, and large gardens reaching down to Cock and Pie Ditch, which encircled the present Seven Dials.1