Greville Street

Names

  • Greville Street
  • Grevill Street

Street/Area/District

  • Greville Street

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Descriptions

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

Greville-Street, Brook-Street, Brook's-Market, Holborn,—the first on the R. about ten or twelve doors from 140, Holborn-hill, it extends to Leather-lane.

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

Greville-St., Holborn, is the first turning on the right hand in Brook-street, going from Holborn-hill. It derives its name from being on part of the site formerly occupied by the mansion and gardens of Sir Fulk Greville, Lord Brook.

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

Greville Street, Hatton Garden and Brooke Street, was so called after Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, "servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sydney." Brooke House stood where Greville Street now stands. Thomas Manningham, Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Gloucester, died here, August 25, 1722.