Cowley Street
Names
- Cowley Street
Street/Area/District
- Cowley Street
Maps & Views
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Cowley Street
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Cowley Street
- 1799 London (Horwood): Cowley Street
Descriptions
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Cowley street, by Wood street, Westminster. †
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Cowley-Street, Wood-Street, Westminster,—the second on the R. a few doors from 64, Millbank-st. leading to Barton-st. and College-st.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Cowley-St., Westminster, is the second turning on the right in Cowley-street [sic.], a few houses from Millbank-street.
from Old and New London, by Walter Thornbury (1878)
Barton Street and Cowley Street, both of which branch out of College Street, are stated to have been built by Barton Booth, the actor, whom we have mentioned as a Westminster schoolboy under Dr. Busby. To the former street Booth gave his own Christian name, and to the latter that of his favourite poet, who also, as we have already seen, was an "old Westminster." There is a large old house at the end of Cowley Street, having a fine double staircase; indeed, there are fine staircases, and other marks of aristocratic occupation, in many of the houses round about this spot.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Cowley Street, Westminster. [See Barton Street.]
Barton Street, Cowley Street, Westminster, so called after Barton Booth, of Cowley, in Middlesex, the original "Cato" in Addison's play. There is a stone in the wall of the house at the corner of this street and Great College Street with this inscription: "Barton Street, 1722." Much of Booth's property lay in Westminster; and in the adjoining Abbey is a monument to his memory, erected at the expense of his wife, the mistress of the great Duke of Marlborough, the "Santlow, fam'd for dance," commemorated by Gay among the friends of Pope. Booth is buried at Cowley.