CROSBY SQUARE

   East out of Bishopsgate at No. 34 (P.O. Directory). In Bishopsgate Ward Within.

   First mention: "Crosby Court or Square" (Hatton, 1708), with a passage leading into St. Mary Axe.

   Called "Crosby's Square" (Horwood, 1799).

   Named from Crosby Place, on part of the site of which the Square was erected after the Great Fire.

   Roman pavement found in 1836, while digging for a drain in the basement of No.3, at a depth of 13 ft. from the paving of the Square (R. Smith, 57).