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Henry A Harben. "Wind Mill Alley - Wingfield Place". A Dictionary of London. (London, 1918), , British History Online. Web. 4 December 2024. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/dictionary-of-london/wind-mill-alley-wingfield-place.
In this section
- Wind Mill Alley
- Windagaine Lane
- Windgoose Court
- Windillow's Court
- Windmill (The)
- Windmill Alley
- Windmill Court
- Windmill Court
- Windmill Court
- Windmill Court, Old Jewry
- Windmill Inn
- Windsor Court
- Windsor Court
- Windsor House
- Windsor Street
- Wine Court
- Wine Court
- Wine Licence Court
- Wine Office Court
- Wingfield Place
Wind Mill Alley
West out of Minories. In Portsoken Ward (O. and M. 1677).
Site now occupied by offices and business houses.
Name derived from the sign, or perhaps there may have been a windmill in the locality in early days.
Windagaine Lane
See Turnagain Lane.
Windgoose Court
See Wild Goose Court.
Windillow's Court
In Blackfriars (Strype, ed. 1755, and Boyle, 1799).
"Windelow's Court " in Dodsley, 1761.
Not named in the maps.
Windmill (The)
In Fleet Street, 1635 (L. and P. Chas. I. 1635, p.384).
No later mention.
Windmill Alley
East out of Shoe Lane, on the north side of the Windmill Inn, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677).
Site now covered by warehouses, etc.
Named after the inn.
Windmill Court
East out of Pye Corner, Giltspur Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.C. 1732-L.C.C. List, 1912).
Former name: "Rosemary Lane" (O. and M. 1677).
Site now covered by the buildings of St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
Windmill Court
West out of Coleman Street, south of St. Stephen's Church. In Coleman Street Ward (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799).
Site now occupied by offices and business houses.
It is suggested that the name is derived from the "sokam Sci Winwalli" near the church of St. Lawrence Jewry granted to Balliol College, Oxford, in 1293 (Price's Guildhall, p.42).
Windmill Court
South-west out of Snow Hill, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-L. Guide, 1758).
Site now covered by Holborn Viaduct and its approaches.
Windmill Court, Old Jewry
East out of Old Jewry, in Coleman Street Ward (Strype, 1720).
First mention: "The Windmill," 1522 (Inventory, temp. H. VIII.).
An old tavern at the corner of Old Jewry and Lothbury.
Stow identifies the site with that of the house of the Fratres de Penitentia at the north corner of Old Jury.
The site is now occupied by offices and business houses.
Windmill Inn
On the east side of Shoe Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677).
See Windmill Alley.
Windsor Court
West out of Monkwell Street at No. 40, in Farringdon Ward Within (det.) (P.O. Directory).
First mention: Strype, ed. 1720.
Part of the site is occupied by " Do-Little's Yard " in O. and M. 1677.
The name is derived from a large house which formerly occupied the site and belonged to Lord Windsor and previously to the Nevels, 19 Ric. II. (See S. 317), "Nevill's Inn."
Windsor Court
In Harp Alley in Little Knightrider Street (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
Mentioned in 1883-7 (End. Ch. Rep. St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, 1902, p.11).
Rebuilt for offices and business houses.
Windsor House
See Nevill's Inn.
Windsor Street
East out of Sandy's Street, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Lockie, 1810-O. S. 1880).
Former name: "Sandys Street" (P.C. 1732-Horwood, 1799).
Inscription on a house in the street " Windsor Street, 1734," which suggests the date of the change of name.
Removed for the extension and widening of Middlesex Street to Bishopsgate.
Wine Court
In Bishopsgate Street Without (W. Stow, 1722-Rev. of London, 1728).
Not named in the maps.
Wine Court
In Harp Ally in Little Knightrider Street (Rev. of London, 1728-P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
Wine Licence Court
See Wine Office Court.
Wine Office Court
North out of Fleet Street, at No.145, to King's Head Court, Shoe Lane, which is now also called Wine Office Court (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Without.
First mention: O. and M. 1677
Called "Wine licence Court," 1758 (H. MSS. Com. 15th Rep. 96).
So named because the office for licences for selling wines was situated there (Archer, p. 398).
Wingfield Place
House of Sir Robert Wingfield, called " Wyngfeldes Place," besides Poolwys in Oldefyschstretes ende, 26 H. VIII. 1534 (L. and P. H. VIII. VII. 508).
Not further identified.