Suffolk Street

Names

  • Suffolk Street

Street/Area/District

  • Suffolk Street

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Descriptions

from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)

Suffolk street, in the Mint, Southwork, from Suffolk house formerly here. See Mint.

from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)

[Suffolk Street.] Mint Street ... is long and narrow, running into Lombart street, thence into Suffolk street, and also into George street, which said Suffolk street and George street have open Passages into St. George's Fields ... at the upper End of the Mint are several Streets, which are pretty good, as already taken notice of, viz. Lombard street, Suffolk street, and George street.

from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)

Suffolk street, in the Mint Southwark.

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

Suffolk-Street (Little), Borough,—the third on the R. in the last described [Great Suffolk Street], from 80, Blackman-st.

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

Suffolk St. Little, is the third turning on the right hand in the preceding [Great Suffolk Street].

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

Suffolk Street, Southwark, was so called after Suffolk House, afterwards called Southwark Place. [See Suffolk House, Southwark.] The last barber who extracted teeth in London (the last of the barber-surgeons) lived in this street, and died here about the year 1824. This thoroughfare is now called Little Suffolk Street. The present Great Suffolk Street is set down as Dirty Lane in the Map of 1720, and is one of ten enjoying that distinction in Dodsley's London, 1761. The Post Office Directory recognises no Dirty Lane in 1890.