London’s Alleys: Bath Court, EC1

This is a Clerkenwell alley that has survived many attempts to remove it and today snakes between a posh hotel and into a private car park.The alley leads off what was known as Great Warner Street, which shows up initially in the 1740s as the area was slowly developed from fields into houses, but the area where the alley is was still fields at the time. The alley though can be clearly seen as more housing was added, and it appears on the Horwood map of 1799 as a link between Great Warner Street