Huggin Lane

Names

  • Huggin Lane
  • Huggin Lane
  • Hoggene lane
  • Haggen Lane
  • Hoggene Lane
  • Hoggen Lane
  • Hoggan Lane
  • Sporren Lane
  • Spuren Lane
  • Spooners Lane
  • Huggen Lane
  • Hugging Lane
  • Pyellane

Street/Area/District

  • Huggin Lane

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Descriptions

from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)

Huggin Lane

South out of Queen Victoria Street to Upper Thames Street (P.O. Directory). In Queenhithe Ward.

First mention: "Huggin Lane" (Elmes, 1831).

Former names: "Hoggene lane," c. 1260 (H. MSS. Com. 9th Rep. 4). "Haggen lane," 1260 (ib. 5). "Hoggene lane," 14th cent. "Hoggen lane," 1430 (Ct. H.W. II. 452). "Hoggan lane alias Sporren lane," 5 Ed. VI. 1551 (Lond. I. p.m. I. 111). Stow says: "Spuren Lane or Spooners Lane" called Huggen lane (S. 354). "Hugging Lane," Horwood, 1799.

See Sporoneslane.

Also called "Pyellane" (q.v.) (S. 358).

from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)

Huggin lane, on the N. side of Thames str. a passage to Great Trinity lane. This (Stow says) was formerly called Spooners lane.

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

[Huggin lane] Then is Spuren lane, or Spooners lane, now called Huggen lane. …

Huggin lane, formerly called Spooners lane, comes out of Great Trinity lane, and falls into Thames street, a Lane of good Account.

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

Huggen lane, Thames street.

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

Hugging-Lane, Upper Thams-St.—at 200, about the middle of the N. side, it extends to 4, Great Trinity-lane, three doors E. from Bread-st. Cheapside.

from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)

Huggin-Lane, Upper Thames-street, is about the middle of the north side of that street, and extends into Great Trinity-lane.

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

Huggin Lane, Upper Thames Street to Great Trinity Lane, was found by Mr. Riley to exist under the name of Hoggenelane, in A.D. 1281.