Essex Street, London

Essex Street is a street in the City of Westminster that runs from Milford Lane in the south to Strand in the north. It is joined by Little Essex Street on its western side and Devereux Court on the eastern side. It was laid out by Nicholas Barbon in around 1675 or 1680 and contains a number of listed buildings.

Essex Street was laid out by Nicholas Barbon around 1675 or 1680 on the grounds of the former Essex House which itself stood on the site of the Outer Temple, once owned by the Knights Templar. The highwayman Tom Cox, hanged at Tyburn in 1691, was known for his activities in the area.

In the first half of the twentieth century, the street was known for its publisher's offices such as Chapman & Hall and Methuen (No. 36).Macmillan were at 4 Little Essex Street until 1990. The Roman Catholic journal Merry England, edited by Wilfrid Meynell, was published from 43 Essex Street.

Essex Hall, an office building at numbers 1 to 6, is the headquarters of the British Unitarians Prior to the Blitz, a chapel and meeting rooms stood on the site, continuing the link with the first avowedly Unitarian place of worship in London, dating back to 1774, when Theophilus Lindsey founded the Essex Street Chapel.

The Edgar Wallace public house at number 40 is on the site of the former Essex Head Tavern, where Samuel Johnson and Richard Brocklesby established the Essex Head Club in 1783.

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