London’s Alleys: Delancey Passage, NW1

This is a short Camden passageway that dates all the way back to when all around here were fields, which wasn’t that long ago, as it happens.The alley leads off Delancey Street, but when that was first laid out in the 1820s, it was a much shorter road called Warren Street. The alley didn’t exist then, but you can see a gap in the houses lining Warren Street where space had been left for a back passage to be added later.
Greenwood map 1828
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