Ropemakers' Alley
Names
- Ropemakers' Alley
- Rope Walk
Street/Area/District
- Ropemakers' Alley
Maps & Views
- 1677 A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London (Ogilby & Morgan): Rope Makers Alley
- 1720 London (Strype): Rope Makers Alley
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Ropemakers Alley
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Ropemakers Alley
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Ropemakers' Alley
West out of Little Moorfields, a passage to Grub Street (Hatton, 1708–Boyle, 1799).
Through a house called "Farthing Latch," because the passenger paid a farthing to the tenant of the house for the privilege of making use of the passage (W. Stow, 1722).
See Ropemaker Street.
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Ropemakers alley, on the W. side of Little Moorfields, a passage to Grub str.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
Ropemakers Alley, pretty broad, with several Garden Houses; which are well built and inhabited. This Alley falls into Butlers Alley, which, with several turnings, falls into Grubstreet.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Ropemakers alley, Little Moorfields.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Ropemakers-Alley, Row, or Walk, Moorfields,—the S. side of Ropemakers-st.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Ropemakers' Alley, Moorfields, now widened and called Ropemaker Street, runs from the west side of Finsbury Pavement to Moor Lane. Hatton, 1708, describes it as "on the west side of Little Moorfields, a passage to Grub Street." In a Map of 1720 "Rope Walk" is given, and the alley appears to have run out from a Moorfields Holywell Street, called Rotten Row. At "his lodgings" in this alley on April 26, 1731, died Daniel Defoe, the author of Robinson Crusoe.