London’s Alleys: George Yard, EC3

This is a former alley that’s now a large courtyard space surrounded by City offices and a Wren-built church, and sits in the centre of a cluster of smaller surviving alleys.George Yard is named after the George Inn that stood on the site in Tudor times as a large coaching inn for travellers. By the 1670s the yard had become more of a narrow alley that lead off Lombard Street and had already gained the name of George Yard, and was little changed right up to recent times.
R Horwood map 1799