London’s Alleys: Charterhouse Mews, EC1

This is a short covered passage that can be found next to The Charterhouse, a relatively hidden cluster of Tudor buildings that only recently opened to the public with a new museum.
Where today there are a set of ornate gates that used to be a much larger gatehouse leading to the Charterhouse estate. As the alley is within the estate while the lands outside were being built up, the alley remained fields for some considerable time.
By the 1670s, most of the land around this part of London was ful