aldewych

Updated: June 25, 2025

Here also was a stone cross, known as Aldewych Cross, for the lane was anciently the Via de Aldewych, and is one of the oldest roads in the parish; Saxon Ald = old, and Wych = a village, a name to be preserved in the new Crescent.

Sir Walter Besant - Holborn and Bloomsbury: The Fascination of London