Salisbury Street
Names
- Salisbury Street
Street/Area/District
- Salisbury Street
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): Salisbury Street
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Salisbury Street
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Salisbury Street
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Salisbury street, on the Sly side of the Strand, betn that and the Thames, near the New exchange L. 110 Yds.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
Salisbury-street, better built than inhabited, by Reason of its Narrowness, and steep Descent towards the Water Side, where there is a Pair of Stairs to take Water at.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Salisbury street, In the Strand; so called from the Earl of Salisbury's house, which formerly stood there.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Salisbury-Street, Strand,—at 77, five doors E. of Adam-st. Adelphi, and about ½ a mile on the L. from Temple-bar.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Salisbury-St., Strand, is about half a mile on the left hand side, going from Temple-bar. It is so called from the town mansion of the Earls of Salisbury, which formerly occupied its site.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Salisbury Street, Strand, built circ. 1678, and so called from Salisbury House, the residence of Robert Cecil, first Earl of Salisbury of the Cecil family. [See Salisbury House.] The present street was rebuilt, James Paine, architect, 1783. Partridge the almanac maker lived in this street.
I have some thoughts of sending for him from the banks of Styx, and reinstating him in his own house, at the sign of the Globe in Salisbury Street.—Tatler , No. 118, January 10, 1709.
The Salisbury estate, consisting of Salisbury and Cecil Streets, was sold by the present Marquis of Salisbury for £200,000, and preparations were made at the end of 1888 for the utilisation of the ground to the best advantage. A large hotel is being built at the end of the present street, which abuts upon the Embankment Gardens. It is proposed to build a club, theatre and chambers, with a courtyard in the centre. The entrance will be at Cecil Gate, where Cecil Street now is, and the exit at Salisbury Gate, where Salisbury Street now is.