It forms part of the A4 road and runs between Fleet Street at its southern end and Holborn.

An alternative origin of the name is the fetter (lance vest) made by armourers working for the nearby Knights Templar.

[2] In 1643, the Member of Parliament Nathaniel Tomkins was arrested for conspiracy against the government by withholding taxes, and hanged outside his front door in Fetter Lane.

In the opening paragraphs of Gulliver's Travels the central character states that he lived briefly at Fetter Lane.

[5] The Socialist Party of Great Britain was founded in Bartlett's Passage, off Fetter Lane, in 1904.

[7] 43 Fetter Lane was the longtime headquarters of printing company Monotype until its destruction by bombing in 1941.

[11] For 67 years, Birkbeck, University of London, was located at Bream's Buildings on Fetter Lane.

Peter Böhler, the London Moravian leader of the Fetter Lane Society, and his followers established it for the purpose of discipleship and accountability.

John Wesley records in his journal for 1 January 1739: "Mr. Hall, Hinching, Ingham, Whitefield, Hutching, and my brother Charles were present at our love feast in Fetter Lane with about 60 of our brethren.

About three in the morning, as we were continuing instant in prayer, the power of God came mightily upon us insomuch that many cried out for exceeding joy and many fell to the ground.