QUEEN SQUARE

West out of Aldersgate Street, at No. 159a, to Bartholomew Close. In Aldersgate Ward and Farringdon Ward Without (P.O. Directory).

First mention:" Queen's Court" (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 235). " Queen's Square (P.C. 1732).

Strype says it was erected in 1708, and at the upper end contains a curious picture of the late Queen Anne, in whose honour it was originally named.