In message , Richard
J. writes
1956: City boundary still shown as running across the southern end of
Ely Place (Bartholomew street atlas)

At http://www.zigguratonline.com/clerkenwellhisto.html :
"In medieval times, the Bishop of Ely was a powerful man. He built his
palace just outside the City of London, at nearby Ely Place."

At http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=63117 there's a
digest of historical mentions of Ely Place which includes:

"Ely Court: outside the City boundary (Bacon, 1912)."
and
"Six messuages and forty acres of land in Ely (in) London, the suburb
of London and the parish of St. Andrew Holeburn to be alienated to the
prior and convent of Ely, 1335-9 (Cal. P.R. Ed. III. 1334-8, p. 107)."

At http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/M...w/churches.htm
:
"Holborn, St.Andrew, Holborn Viaduct [mediæval - pre-Conquest -before
951] parish originally partly within the City jurisdiction, partly in
Middlesex."

So apart from that last item, nothing to suggest a former presence in
(or "within") the City. I've since had a look at the London
Encyclopaedia (p266-7). This makes the statement that Ely place "does
not form part of the City of London and is exempt from the authority of
the Lord Mayor" (I think this might have been the original source for
the lecture on which my notes were based.

I also have a possibly erroneous mental image of an "Ely Place" street
sign in the City Corporation style, white with a black border and with
the city coat of arms at the side.

Methinks a trip to have a look is overdue!
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

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