In message , Clive D. W. Feather
writes

In article , Matthew
Malthouse writes

But it makes me curious, why did it get named Chancery Lane rather than
Grey's Inn Road at the foot of which it stands?

As others have said, the station entrance has moved. I looked around
there a day or two ago and couldn't see any obvious site for the
original station. The escalators descend about 20m in total, so that's
35m horizontal distance. The platforms are about 100m long, so
altogether the lift shafts were perhaps 100m west of Gray's Inn Road,
and thus nearer Chancery Lane.

That is confirmed by my 1905 Post Office Directory Map, which shows the
station on a corner site facing Southampton Buildings - see

http://www.musonix.demon.co.uk/temp/Chancery.jpg

I've highlighted the site in red - it is just about exactly 100m west of
Chancery Lane. Its a while since I've been around that part of town, but
ISTR there is now a post office on or very close to the station site.
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Paul Terry