West out of Aldersgate Street at No. 179 to Albion Buildings (P.O. Directory). In Aldersgate Ward and Farringdon Ward Without.
First mention: 1761.
Former names: 'Westmoreland Court" and " Pav'd Alley" at the eastern end (O. and M. 1677). "Westmoreland Court" and " Pottage Pot Alley" east (Rocque, 1746). "Westmoreland Alley or Court" and "Paved Alley " (as above) (Strype, 1720 and 1755). "Westmoreland Passage, commonly called Porridge Pot Alley" (P.C. 1732) Westmoreland Court" (Dodsley, 1761).
Strype says it was formerly a large House converted into tenements (ed. 1720, I. iii. 284).
Probably rebuilt 1761.
A Dictionary of London. Henry A Harben. 1918.