Sackville Street
Names
- Sackville Street
Street/Area/District
- Sackville Street
Maps & Views
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Sackville Street
- 1799 London (Horwood): Sackville Street
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Sackvil street, on the W. side of, and running parallel with Swallow str. Wd from Golden Square, St. James's Westminster, betn Pickadilly Sly, and near Glass house str. Nly.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
[Sackvile-street]: Adjoining to [the House of the Lord Sherbourn] is Sackvile-street, a pretty handsome open Place, as having a Prospect into the Gardens: It hath a turning Passage into Swallow-street.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Sackville-Street, Piccadilly,—at 48, nearly op. St. James's church, ⅓ of a mile on the R. from the Hay-market, extending to Vigo-lane.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Sackville-St., Piccadilly, is nearly opposite St. James's church.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Sackville Street, Piccadilly, to Vigo Street; said to be the longest street in London of any consequence without a turning out of it on either side, and the only one without a lamp-post. It was built about 1679.2 Sir William Petty, the earliest English writer on Political Economy, lived, in the reigns of Charles II. and James II., in the corner house on the east side, opposite St. James's Church. Dr. Joseph Warton had lodgings here in 1792.3 Arthur Young, the father of agricultural science, lived at No. 32 for a long series of years, and died there, April 12, 1820, at the age of eighty-one. He had been blind for the last ten years of his life. The house where he lived was occupied by the Board of Agriculture, of which he was secretary. Sir Everard Home was living at No. 30 in 1809. Boswell, writing in 1785, mentions that the Literary Club, when the Turk's Head in Gerard Street was converted into a private house, "moved first to Prince's in Sackville Street," then to Baxter's (Le Telier's) in Dover Street.
2 Rate-books of St. Martin's.
3 Nichols's Lit. Anec., vol. ix. p. 473.