Those of you who came to Dr Gordon Hewlett’s entertaining recent talk about Sir Christopher Hatton (and indeed those of you who didn’t) may be interested in this article about Ely Place in London. Ely Place, despite being in central London, used to be part of Cambridgeshire and Sir Christopher Hatton took out a lease on parts of Ely Place in in 1576.
The heart of London is full of strange old places with unusual names and odd stories, but there is one place that for a very long time was not a true part of…
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