Pinner Court (Grays Inn Road)
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Pinner Court was located at or near the present 52 and/or 54 Gray Inns Road / Google Earth Street View.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-01-16. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-01-25.
'Pinner-Court' was the 19th century name for what is now 52 and/or 54 Grays Inn Road. There were then two short narrow cul-de-sacs there. One of them was Pinner Court, a name that may well have been inspired by the presence of the Pindar of Wakefield public house on Grays Inn Road.
The street name is not included on any of the early maps I have seen, but Lockie's Topography (1810) notes that Pinner Court is located on "Gray's-Inn-Lane,—at 35, that number on the R. from Middle-row, Holborn".[1] Since he has Bell Court at No. 22, Portpool Lane at No. 52, and notes that Baldwin's Gardens lead to 32 Grays Inn Lane (later Gray's Inn Road),[2] the location can be established with reasonable certainty.
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
Maps
- Edward Stanford's Library Map of London (1862-71), Bloomsbury section.
- 25" O.S. map London XXVI (1936; rev. 1914)
- 6" O.S. map Middlesex XVII (1880-82; surveyed 1868-73)
- 6" O.S. map Surrey III (1880; surveyed 1868-73)
- 6" O.S. map London VII.SW (1894-96; rev. 1893-95)
- 6" O.S. map Surrey III.NW (1898; rev. 1893-95)
- 6" O.S. map London sheet K (1920; rev. 1913-14)
- 6" O.S. map London sheet K (c. 1946; rev. 1938).
Background
- 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.nn. Bell-Court [2], Portpool-lane, Baldwin's-Gardens
- 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.nn. Bell-Court [2], Portpool-lane, Baldwin's-Gardens.
Notes
- ↑ 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. Pinner-Court [1]
- ↑ 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.nn. Bell-Court [2], Portpool-lane, Baldwin's-Gardens.
Pinner Court was just right of the red ellipse / Edward Stanford's Library Map of London (1862-71), Bloomsbury section.