London’s Alleys: Eagle Court, EC1

This is an odd alley in Farringdon lined on one side by rough office backs and the other by a listed Victorian school.The alley would have been on farmland owned by the Priory of St John of Jerusalem, but following King Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the monasteries, the land was sold off to developers, and the farms quickly turned into housing for the expanding city.
The alley first appears in maps in the 1670s, although it seems likely to have existed for several decades by then, and althou