London’s Alleys: Crescent Row, EC1

This is a curving narrow lane that runs behind rows of houses and offices just to the north of the Barbican estate.It’s origins lay in the formerly much wider road junction that used to be here which dates from Tudor times, and as was not uncommon, a row of houses was erected right in the middle of the road. These over time enlarged to the point were the junction was as it is today, and there remained a small alley running to the south of the houses.
Shows up on John Rocque’s map of