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Welcome to London's narrowest alley, and it's not the one that most other people say is the narrowest alley in London.

An ancient alley, on a modern alignment that will soon shift sideways, this is the astronomically named Star Alley.

This is a former road now split into a road and a pedestrianised footpath, linked by a covered walkway to St John's Street, and the site of the former Red Bull Theatre.

The oldest surviving purely residential walkway in the West End, Middleton Place is actually a modern name for a much older passageway.

Welcome to York Place, for that's its modern name, yet it used to be curiously called Of Alley, and why is was so called is just as curious as the name itself.

One of the ancient paths that used to slip between fields when all around Richmond was fields and Palaces.

This is a passageway that wavers from wide open court to narrow rubbish filled alley, and is named after a traitor.

This barely noticeable crack in the tall buildings on Wardour Street is Tyler’s Court, home to werewolves and vampires. The name of the alley probably derives from the use given to the land in the area at times, namely excavating…

This short little alley certainly brings home the bacon, as conceals a vast modern courtyard, which was until recently the old Danish Bacon warehouse.

A ancient winding path down a slope lined with cobbles in the City with a "famous wren church" in the middle, what's not to love about Lovat Lane?

A fairly steep little passageway that's wide enough to be a road, was originally an extension of Saffron Hill to the south.

One of the joys of London are the alleys with wonderful names, and this is perfect example of one that can be found near Clerkenwell.

A sanitized road that was once much less posh and an awful lot longer.

When all around Clerkenwell was fields and churches, a path ran through the cornflowers. Today where all is built up, that ancient path still carves a narrow path through the buildings. This is Passing Alley, although it no longer exactly…

This is the story of an alley called Bull Inn Court which is today most famous for containing a pub, which is not called the Bull Inn.