QUEEN'S HEAD PASSAGE

South out of Newgate Street, at No. 41, to Paternoster Row. In Farringdon Ward Within (P.O. Directory).

First mention:Horwood, 1799.

Former name: "Queens Head Alley" (Leake, 166Queen's Head PassageP.C. 1732).

The name of the public-house at No. 41 Newgate Street at the present time is the "King's Head."

So called from the Queen's Head Tavern there seated in an open square Court, from which it hath a long passage into Newgate Street (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 196).