London’s Alleys: White Bear Yard, EC1

This is a very short little stump of an alley in Clerkenwell that today leads to the side entrance to a warehouse office conversion.The area developed from the 1600s onwards, and this 1676 map shows that the western side of the alley had developed, but the corner plot was still empty.
Ogilby and Morgan map 1676
A century later, and unsurprisingly, the whole area is fully developed, and this seems to be the first time that what was called White Bear Coach Yard can be seen on maps.
John Rocque map