Stanhope Street
Names
- Stanhope Street
- Stanhope’s Street
Street/Area/District
- Stanhope Street
Maps & Views
- 1660 ca. West Central London (Hollar): Stanhope Street
- 1720 London (Strype): Stanhope Street
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Stanhope Street
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Stanhope Street
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Stanhope Street
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Stanhope street, a spacious str. betn Princes str. near Wild str. NW and Maypole alley (near Witch str.) SE L. 220 yds, and from Cha+ NE 1040 yds.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
Stanhope Street, a pretty broad, well built and inhabited Street.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Stanhope’s street, Clare Market. †
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Stanhope-Street, Clare-Market,—the continuation of Newcastle-st. bearing to the L. from the E. side the New Church in the Strand.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Stanhope-St. is in Clare-market, the continuation of Newcastle-street.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Stanhope Street, Clare Market, so called after Ann Stanhope, wife of John Holles, first Earl of Clare, and mother of the celebrated Denzil Holles: she died in 1651 in "the corner house of the Middle Piazza in Covent Garden." Joe Grimaldi, the greatest of clowns, was born in this street, December 18, 1778.1 He was baptized at St. Clement Danes. John [Lord] Campbell rented, Michaelmas 1800, "the second floor [Scoticè, the third storey] of No. 6 Stanhope Street, Clare Market. ... I get it, unfurnished, at the rate of £18 a year, including £2 a year for service. ... I have three rooms—a parlour, a bedroom, and a large dressing closet."2