London’s Alleys: Jerusalem Passage, EC1

This short passageway owes its origins to the Clerkenwell Priory that dominated the area and was home to the Monastic Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem (and try saying that in a hurry).Running between a couple of the monastery buildings was a covered passage known as the “long entry” and following the dissolution when the land was sold off, the old passageway was reused as a public route, which it remains to this day.
Slowly developed, by the 1780s, the passag