London’s Alleys: Jockey’s Fields, WC1

This equestrian-named passage near Holborn isn’t named after jockeys, as we think of them today, riding horses in races, but it is related to horses as a mode of transport.The passage runs alongside the wall surrounding the Grays Inn legal enclave, which was still largely fields until the 18th century when the Bedford Charity started developing the area.
William Morgan’s map 1682
A quirk of the history is that what is today Jockey’s Fields was originally called Bedford Mews, an