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6 unusual facts about Chancery Lane


Chancery Lane

In the 14th century it became the estate of the Master of the Rolls, which included an official residence (Rolls House) and storage for court records.

In later centuries the Court convened in Lincoln's Inn Old Hall and other buildings there for the Court's purposes, such as the important Six Clerks office.

Chancery Lane takes its name from the historic High Court of Chancery, which started its association with the area when the Bishop of Lincoln acquired the 'old Temple' in 1161.

Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary

It is an example of the coastal swamps which once dotted the leeward coast of Barbados from Speightstown to Chancery Lane.

Ralph Neville

He died in his London palace, built on a street later renamed Chancery Lane owing to his connection with the chancery.

Richard Wooddeson

In 1808 a fire broke out in his house in Chancery Lane and destroyed his library, mainly of legal works.


Matthew Montagu, 4th Baron Rokeby

Montagu was born Matthew Robinson, the son of Morris Robinson of the Six Clerks' Office, Chancery Lane and nephew of Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby.

Sarah Tyacke

It included the building of a greatly expanded repository on the office's site at Kew in 1995, and the subsequent removal of services from the old Public Record Office building in Chancery Lane; the opening of the Family Records Centre for family historians in 1997; and the merger of the office with the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts in 2003 to form the new National Archives.


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Joseph Mendham

This came to his nephew, the Rev. John Mendham, on whose death his widow, Sophia, placed the books at the disposal of Charles Hastings Collette, solicitor in Lincoln's Inn Fields, by whom a selection was made and presented to the Incorporated Law Society in Chancery Lane, London.

Liberty of the Rolls

This apparent territorial anomaly disappeared in 1994 when the Boundary Commission altered the border to place all of the area east of Chancery Lane into the City.