Cannon Row
Cannon Row is an historic street in the City of Westminster in London. It is best known as the location of Cannon Row Police Station.
History
In 1878 Cannon Row extended from the back of Richmond Terrace to Bridge Street, Westminster, and about midway between the Thames and Parliament Street. It is a narrow thoroughfare. According to Stow and John Selden, Cannon Row — or, as it was often called, Channel Row — derived its name from being the residence allotted to the Canons of St. Stephen's Chapel in the Palace of Westminster. It was anciently the site of several grand townhouses. Stow states that among its inhabitants in his time were "divers noblemen and gentlemen," including Sir Edward Hobbes, John Thynne, Esq., Henry Clinton, Earl of Lincoln, (Lincoln House) and the Earl of Derby (Derby House) and the Duchess of Somerset, mother of the Earl of Hertford, (Hertford House) who both occupied "stately" houses.[1] Also situated on Cannon Row was Sussex House, home of Thomas Radcliffe, Earl of Sussex.[2]
Sources
- Thornbury, Walter, Old and New London, Volume 3, London, 1878, pp. 376-382: Whitehall: Precinct and Gardens[1]
- Ros, Maggi, Life in Elizabethan England: A London and Westminster Directory, 2008
