LITTLE SOMERSET STREET

   West out of Mansell Street into Harrow Alley. In Portsoken Ward (P.O. Directory).

   Earliest mention: Horwood, 1799.

   The western end is occupied by a Timber Yard in Rocque, 1746, which seems to have formed part of the possessions of the Abbey of St Clare of the Minoresses, 34 H. VIII. 1543, and 1 Mary, 1554 (L. and P. H. VIII. Vol. XVIII. Pt. 2, 199, and Lond. I p.m. I. 127, and III. p. 89).