Pindar Passage (Grays Inn Road)

Locality
Coordinate	51.529085, -0.119352
Adm. div.	Middlesex, now Greater London
Vicinity	Behind 328 Grays Inn Road
Type	Thoroughfare
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct
First Record	1810
A.k.a.	Pindar Passage; Passage behind the Pindar of Wakefield's

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The former Pinder of Wakefield. The passage was 'behind' it. probably meaning on the east side

The former Pinder of Wakefield seen from the air. The passage was 'behind' it. probably meaning on the east side / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-01-16. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

The Pinder of Wakefield, a pub on Grays Inn Road, was in existence at least as early as 1692. An alley behind it is referred to in the 1791 record cited below and named in that dated 1822. It is listed in Lockie's Topography (1810) as "Pindar - Passage, Gray's-Inn-Lane,—8 doors S. of Britannia-st."

Note with regard to Grays Inn Road, where the pub was situated, that nomenclature has shifted over time. Lockie in his Topography (editions of 1810 and 1813) refers to the entire course of Grays Inn Road as "Gray's-Inn-Lane" – he has no entry under, or cross-reference from, "Grays Inn Road"; Edward Stanford's 1862-71 Library Map of London and its Suburbs labels the narrower part of the street along Grays Inn "Grays Inn Lane" but uses "Grays Inn Road" for the street north of Grays Inn where it becomes wider. Nowadays the entire length is named "Grays Inn Road". Template:PlaceNamesItemQuery

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.

Sources

• Lockie, John, compil. Lockie's Topography of London, Giving a Concise Local Description of and Accurate Direction to Every Square, Street, Lane, Court, Dock, Wharf, Inn, Public Office, &c. in the Metropolis and its Environs (London, 1810), s.n. Pindar-Passage
  • Lockie, John, compil. Lockie's Topography of London, Giving a Concise Local Description of, and Accurate Direction to, Every Square, Street, Lane, Court, Dock, Wharf, Inn, Public Office, &c. in the Metropolis and its Environs. Second Edition (London, 1813), s.n. Pindar-Passage.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map London XXVI (1877; surveyed 1871)
• 25" O.S. map London sheet V.6 (1916; rev. 1913)
• 6" O.S. map Middlesex XVII (1880-82; surveyed 1868-73)
• 6" O.S. map London VII.NW (1894-96; rev. 1893-94)
• 6" O.S. map London sheet K (1920; rev. 1913-14)
• 6" O.S. map London sheet K (c. 1946; rev. 1938).

Background

• Wikipedia: Gray's Inn Road.

Notes