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Norfolk Street
Strand. (WC2) Named from the Dukedom of Norfolk. Here, in a house near the water-side, lodged Peter the Great in 1698. At the south-west corner lived William Penn, the Quaker, and founder of Pennsylvania. Here also lived Mountfort, the player. (Reference: Timbs's Curiosities of London, p. 765) |
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