Drury Lane: A street in London, near the Strand, with which it communicates through Wych Street. It is one of the great arteries of the parish of St. Clement Danes, an aristocratic part of London in the time of the Stuarts. It takes the name from Drury House, built by Sir William Drury, in the time of Henry VIII. Near the entrance of Drury Lane from the Strand, on the left, an old house, now a Mission House still exists, which stood in the Lane with the old house of the Drurys, before the street was built.

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