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Henry A Harben. "Wild Rents - Winchester Street". A Dictionary of London. (London, 1918), , British History Online. Web. 6 December 2024. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/dictionary-of-london/wild-rents-winchester-street.
In this section
- Wild Rents
- Wilderness (The)
- Wilderness Lane
- William Street
- Williams' (Dr.) Library
- Willis' Court, Brackley Street
- Willoughby House, Barbican
- Willoughby Rents
- Willow-tree Alley, Yard
- Wilson's Yard
- Winches Rents
- Winches Yard
- Winchester Avenue
- Winchester Buildings
- Winchester Court
- Winchester House
- Winchester Market
- Winchester Place
- Winchester Seld
- Winchester Street
- Winchester Street
Wild Rents
In Long Lane (P.C. 1732). Not named in the maps.
Wilderness (The)
See Wilderness Lane.
Wilderness Lane
See Hutton Street.
William Street
West out of New Bridge Street, at No.21, to Water Street in the precinct of Bridewell (P 0. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Without.
First mention: Horwood, 1799.
Williams' (Dr.) Library
On the east side of Redcross street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746).
Erected by his trustees 1724.
In 1864 removed to Queen's Square Bloomsbury and thence to 16 Grafton Street, Tottenham Court Road.
Willis' Court, Brackley Street
North out of Brackley Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Lockie, 1810-Elmes, 1831).
Not named in the maps
Willoughby House, Barbican
See Bas Court, Barbican.
Willoughby Rents
Lands and tenements of Lord Willoughby of Eresby in Barbican and Golden Lane, called " Willoughby Rents," 1601 (L. and P. Ed. VI. VI. p.64).
Not further identified.
Willow-tree Alley, Yard
See Star Court, Nightingale Lane.
Wilson's Yard
North out of Lower Thames Street to Bakers' Hall (O.S. 1880).
Earliest mention: O.S. 1848-51.
Former names: "Horshoe Court" (O. and M. 1677). "Nags Head Court" (Strype 1720 and 1755).
Seems to be called "Witchellors Yard " in Rocque, 1746.
The coalmeter's office stood in Nag's Head Court in 1720.
Winches Rents
In Three Leg Alley near Shoe Lane (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
Winches Yard
In Great Minories (P.C. 1732). See Wenches Yard.
Winchester Avenue
North out of Silver Street at No. 10 (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate Ward Within.
So named in 1887.
Former name: "Winchester Court" (O. and M. 1677, to O.S. 1875).
Leading east out of Monkwell Street, the entrance out of Silver Street not being then made.
Winchester Buildings
In Great Winchester Street (L.C.C. List, 1912).
Erected 1871.
Winchester Court
See Winchester Avenue.
Winchester House
See Winchester Place.
Winchester Market
Shop of Henry le Wimpler in Winchester market and his chest in seld of Robert de Arraz, 1281 (Ct. H.W. I. 56).
No later mention.
Winchester Place
Sir William Powlet, lord St. John, afterwards marquis of Winchester, purchased part of the site of the Augustine Friars house and church after the dissolution, temp. H. VIII. and erected a great house on the site of the domestic buildings called " Powlet House " and afterwards "Winchester Place" (S. 177), and 31 H. VIII. 1539 (L. and P. H. VIII. XIV. Pt. I, p.421).
The house was pulled d9wn 1839, and "Great Winchester Street," "Little Winchester Street" (q.v.) were afterwards built on and now occupy the site.
A portion of the old house was in existence in 1844.
The Pay Office (q.v.) for the Navy was here at one time (See Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii 132).
In Howel's time, 1657, it was called " Winchester House " and was occupied as a Glass House by the Spanish Ambassador and for the Excise Office (p.71).
Winchester Seld
A tenement in the parish of St. Michael Paternoster in the lane called " Les Arches " (College Street), between the wall of the seld called " Wynchestre SeId " east and the said lane west, 1276 (Anc. Deeds, A. 7823).
Devised by Roger Hardel to Isabella his sister 1275 (Ct. H.W. I. 24), and devised by Robert Hardel to his son Roger, 1279-80 (Ct. H.W. I. 46).
Murage arising out of the Winchester Seld, I Ed. II. (Cal. L. Bk. C. 163).
Sharpe says there was a warehouse so called near the wool market of Woolchurch, besides the seld of this name above mentioned.
Winchester Street
By Addle Hill (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
Winchester Street
See Great Winchester Street.