Milford Lane

Milford Lane is a narrow street in the City of Westminster that runs from Strand in the north to a brief walkway section leading to Temple Place in the south.

The Cheshire Cheese larger public house, midway, on the corner with Little Essex Street, stands where there has been a tavern since the 16th century.

Its eastern side was hit by a V-1 flying bomb on 24 July 1944 during the Second World War, demolishing part of it, blocking the lane and trapping people in rubble at 28 Essex Street.

[11][12][13] Three fragments of architectural sculptures by Henry Poole from the demolished United Kingdom Provident Institution offices are now located on the street.

[14] The K2 telephone kiosk at the southern end of the lane at the junction with Temple Place is grade II listed with Historic England.

Milford Lane is the scene of a bawdy poem of 1716 by Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, titled The Duel of the Crabs which recounts a battle between two armies in the pubic hair of a whore residing in Milford Lane,[16] the first lines of which read "In Milford-lane, near to St. Clement's Steeple/There liv'd a Nymph kind to all Christian People".