Basing Lane, EC4M
St Paul’s from the south west in 1896
Basing Lane ran west from Bow Lane to Bread Street.

The earliest mention of the lane was in 1275.

The part from Bow Lane to the back door of the Red Lion, Watling Street lay in Cordwainer Street Ward, and the rest was in Breadstreet Ward.

Stow did not know the derivation of the street’s name, but suggested it had been called the Bakehouse in the fourteenth century. The more probable derivation would seem to be from the family of ’Basinges’ who held property in the lane in the thirteenth century.

It was removed for the western extension and widening of Cannon Street in 1854 into which it is now absorbed.

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