Modify White Horse Court 1851

[pincard]

Does anyone have access to a map which shows where White Horse Court Whitechapel was in 1851 please pincard

[Kiwi007]

I found this snippet which may be of interest it may also have been a lane- this is from a Jack the Ripper article:

http://www.casebook.org/victorian_london/commercialroad.html?printer=true

In laying out the road the line eastwards more or less followed that of a lane - the longest in the vicinity of the Metropolis - which extended from Goodmans Stile at the back of Whitechapel Church to Ratcliff. It was called White Horse Lane. Just before reaching the Halfway House, now the George Tavern, where another lane (now Charles Street) branched off towards the Parish Church, stood Derans Row, consisting of about a dozen houses, at the end of which was the site of a sometime windmill. After passing here, White Horse Lane took a sudden bend to the south-east at a spot, which may be indicated as lying between Sutton Street and Lucas Street, where there was a plot of ground styled in old maps "Hangman's Acre." The origin of this description is obscure, but the late Sir Walter Besant was pleased to see in the name the identification of "the place beyond East Smithfield" referred to by Stow, where certain pirates were hanged on high ground so that they could be seen from the river.
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if you think there enough clues, you could try this map site:

www.streetmap.co.uk/

the site below has Victorian Streets:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050325025901/http://www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/lon-str.html

if all those fail, you might pick up something via Charles Booth's poverty maps- I found an ancestor was interviewed by him in 1889 ( my Jane KERR!)..so take a look here:

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:S3pj6EPhIvgJ:booth.lse.ac.uk/static/a/8.html+lost+london+street+index&hl=en&gl=au&ct=clnk&cd=7

Good luck!
Jocelyn

[Sylviaann]

I couldn't find White Horse Court anywhere on any of my maps.  I would imagine it was part of White Horse Lane which is still there.

Biker is one of the experts on this sort of thing

Sylviaann