Barge Yard
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- Barge Yard
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from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Barge Yard
South out of Bucklersbury at No. 20 (P.O. Directory). In Cheap Ward.
First mention: O. and M. 1677.
Named from the messuage and tenements previously existing on the site called the Barge (q.v.).
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Barge-Yard, Bucklersbury, is six houses on the left from the Mansion-house.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Barge Yard, Bucklersbury, and on the south side of Queen Victoria Street, the formation of which has somewhat curtailed its area. Barge Yard was so named after a house known by the sign of the Old Barge; "and it hath been," says Stow, who tells us this, "a common speech that, when Walbrooke did lie open, barges were rowed out of the Thames, or towed up so far, and therefore the place hath ever since been called the Old Barge."