Bull and Mouth Street
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Bull and Mouth Street was a street in the City of London that ran between Edward Street (Hall Lane) and St Martin's Le Grand. On part of its site stands Postman's Park.
The street may once have been known as Stukeley's Street.[2][3]
The street is named after the Bull and Mouth Inn which stood on the south side from at least the time of the Great Fire of London in 1666 when it was destroyed. It was subsequently rebuilt.[4] It may date even earlier as the original name of the inn was the Boulogne Mouth, a reference to the siege of the town and harbour of Boulogne by the English kings Henry VII and Henry VIII in 1544–46. Over time, the name became corrupted into Bull and Mouth.[5] The street was first recorded on John Ogilby and William Morgan's Large Scale Map of the City As Rebuilt By 1676.[4]
