Liquorpond Street
Names
- Liquorpond Street
- Lickapan Street
- Liquor Pond Street
Street/Area/District
- Liquorpond Street
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): Liquorpond Street
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Liquorpond Street
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Liquorpond Street
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Liquorpond (or Lickapan) street, a considerable str. betn Grays inn lane W. and the N. end of Leather lane. L. 180 Yds, and from PC. [St. Paul's Cathedral] NW, 1350.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
Liquor pond street comes out of the end of Gray's Inn lane, over against Kings Gate, and falleth into Leather lane, against Bedford street. The Street is handsome and large, with pretty good Buildings, indifferently inhabited. On the South side is Berry Court, a pretty open Place, with some good Houses; and hath a passage into Cox's Alley, on the back side of this Street, and fall into Leather lane.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Liquor-Pond-Street, Gray's-Inn-Lane,—at 68, about ¼ of a mile on the R. from Middle-row, Holborn, it extends to the N. end of Leather-lane.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Liquor-Pond-St., Gray's-inn-lane, is about a quarter of a mile on the right hand from Middle-row, Holborn.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Liquorpond Street, from the north end of Gray's Inn Lane to the north end of Leather Lane. Strype (1720) describes the street, but without any attempt at a derivation of the name. It is, he says, "handsome and large, with pretty good buildings, indifferently inhabited. Hatton (1708) writes, "Liquorpond, or Lickapan, Street," but the last, no doubt, is only the vulgar pronunciation. For a long period the south side of the street has been occupied by Messrs. Reid's great porter brewery, and in Strype's time there seem to have been several breweries in the immediate neighbourhood. Probably these were attracted by abundant springs and ponds, which thus afforded the liquor to the breweries. The name has now passed away, for the entire north side of the street was, in 1876, pulled down to form the broad street from New Oxford Street to Old Street, this portion of which was, in 1878, named Clerkenwell Road.