Middle Temple Lane
Names
- Middle Temple Lane
Street/Area/District
- Middle Temple Lane
Maps & Views
- 1553-9 Londinum (Braun & Hogenberg, 1572): Middle Temple Lane
- 1553-9 London ("Agas Map" ca. 1633): Middle Temple Lane
- 1560 London (Jansson, 1657): Middle Temple Lane
- 1666 London after the fire (Bowen, 1772): Middle Temple Lane
- 1677 A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London (Ogilby & Morgan): Middle Temple Lane
- 1720 London (Strype): Middle Temple Lane
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Middle Temple Lane
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Temple Lane
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Middle Temple Lane
South out of Fleet Street at No. 3 through the Temple precincts (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Without. Divides the Middle from the Inner Temple.
First mention: O. and M. 1677.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Middle Temple lane, a lane that leads from Fleet street to the Middle Temple.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Temple-Lane (Middle), Fleet-Street,—four doors on the R. from Temple-bar, leading to the Temple.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Temple-Lane, Middle, Fleet-street, is four houses on the right hand side, going from Tempple-bar.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Middle Temple Lane, a narrow lane leading from Fleet Street to the Thames. Elias Ashmole, the antiquary, had chambers in this lane. On January 26, 1679, a fire began in the next chamber to Ashmole's, in which he lost the library he had been thirty-three years collecting, 9000 coins, ancient and modern, and "all his vast repository of seals, charters, and other antiquities." His invaluable collection of manuscripts was fortunately at his house at Lambeth.