London’s Alleys: Hare Place, EC4

What looks like a short gap under some shops is an alley that used to be so much longer than it is today. Hare Place today passes under the Fleet Street shops and terminates just behind in Old Mitre Court, but it once passed much further south into the heart of the legal buildings that fill the area.What was originally called Hare Alley followed the boundary between Serjeants’ Inn to the east and unmarked buildings to the west. Serjeants’ Inn on Fleet Street was one of the two inns o