Quick question about Buck's Row

[yen_powell]

Some renaming and renumbering information for Bucks Row/Durward Street (I would say that in my experience Ordnance Survey maps lag quite a way behind changes on the ground) :-

Bucks Row, Whitechapel E. [<1810-c1892] [SMW] (D7) {58} <G63> “Buck’s Row, Ducking Pond Lane, Whitechapel Road. Part of the north side by Liptrap’s distillery.” Lockie, 1810. Although recorded by Lockie in 1810 the name does not appear on a map until 1830 referring to a terrace in the centre of the north side of Ducking Pond Lane. By about 1850 the name Bucks Row is being applied to the north side of Ducking Pond Lane from Thomas Street (Fulbourne Street) to North Street (Brady Street). There was an order dated 8/04/1864 which apparently renamed (all or part of?) Bucks Row as Great Eastern Square but both names remained in use long after this. There are three entries for Buck’s Row in the 1901 LCC volume, all in Whitechapel and all taken to refer to separate portions of the same place. One is described as “Part now Durward Street”, the second as “See Great Eastern Square” and the last as “Part now White’s Row”. The entry for Great Eastern Square, off Vallance Road, has “Change of name Buck’s Row 8/04/1864” and that for White’s Row (Whitechapel) has “Now Durward Street”. At Durward Street part of Buck’s Row is said to have been renamed Durward Street 12/10/1883, Plan 3166 but this is incorrect; it was a renumbering order instead. Bucks Row and Whites Row were jointly renamed Durward Street 25/10/1892

[MrBarnett]

Some renaming and renumbering information for Bucks Row/Durward Street (I would say that in my experience Ordnance Survey maps lag quite a way behind changes on the ground) :-

Bucks Row, Whitechapel E. [<1810-c1892] [SMW] (D7) {58} <G63> “Buck’s Row, Ducking Pond Lane, Whitechapel Road. Part of the north side by Liptrap’s distillery.” Lockie, 1810. Although recorded by Lockie in 1810 the name does not appear on a map until 1830 referring to a terrace in the centre of the north side of Ducking Pond Lane. By about 1850 the name Bucks Row is being applied to the north side of Ducking Pond Lane from Thomas Street (Fulbourne Street) to North Street (Brady Street). There was an order dated 8/04/1864 which apparently renamed (all or part of?) Bucks Row as Great Eastern Square but both names remained in use long after this. There are three entries for Buck’s Row in the 1901 LCC volume, all in Whitechapel and all taken to refer to separate portions of the same place. One is described as “Part now Durward Street”, the second as “See Great Eastern Square” and the last as “Part now White’s Row”. The entry for Great Eastern Square, off Vallance Road, has “Change of name Buck’s Row 8/04/1864” and that for White’s Row (Whitechapel) has “Now Durward Street”. At Durward Street part of Buck’s Row is said to have been renamed Durward Street 12/10/1883, Plan 3166 but this is incorrect; it was a renumbering order instead. Bucks Row and Whites Row were jointly renamed Durward Street 25/10/1892

Hi,

Should the references to Ducking Pond Lane read Ducking Pond Row?

Ducking Pond Lane was the original name of the southern part of Brady Street and DP Row was originally applied to a row of buildings along what would later become the south side of Little North Street (later renamed Winthrop Street).

Gary

[yen_powell]

Hi,

Should the references to Ducking Pond Lane read Ducking Pond Row?

Ducking Pond Lane was the original name of the southern part of Brady Street and DP Row was originally applied to a row of buildings along what would later become the south side of Little North Street (later renamed Winthrop Street).

Gary

Seems to be both Row and Lane, depending where the info comes from. See below:-

Ducking Pond Lane (or Row), Whitechapel E [<1720-c1865] [SMW] (D7) {58} <G63> On early 18th century maps this is named as White Chappel Green and is likely to have been part of the old road alignment from Whitechapel to Old Ford before Bow Bridge and the Essex Road were built in the early 12th century. It is Ref 26 on the 1720 parish map of Whitechapel running east from Bakers Row to what was then considered to be part of Ducking Pond Row (or as Rocque in 1745 calls it) Ducking Pond Lane (now the south end of Brady Street). By 1745 Rocque names the western end as White’s Row which name survived until late in the 19th century, but the rest remains as Ducking Pond Row. The pond remains at the eastern end of the row until about 1803. “Ducking Pond Row, Whitechapel Road. The first parallel to part of it, viz. from 94-154 opposite the London Hospital from Bakers Row to North Street.” Lockie, 1810 but “Ducking Pond Lane. North end of Greyhound Lane from 105 Whitechapel Road” in 1813. Greyhound Lane was the south end of the later Fulbourne Street.

[MrBarnett]

This is Roque's Map of 1746:

[yen_powell]

This is Roque's Map of 1746:

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I always find it so hard to imagine east London as a relatively recent rural area when wandering around it now, but that map really shows it properly. Couldn't imagine a pond round there now unless it was sitting in the middle of a park (apart from after a rain storm when the drains can't cope of course).