Leen Lane

Leen Lane, took its name from a merchant family which owned property in it in the 13th century. Later blocked, in the 14th and 15th centuries it gave access to St. Oswald's vicarage and St. Giles's bakehouse. It is one of the four surviving medieval "lanes" in Chester, they being Godstall Lane, Feathers Lane, Pierpoint Lane and Leen Lane.

In 1905 Haswell descibes it as follows:


 * "This Leen Lane has entirely disappeared as a thoroughfare leading off Eastgate Street. I cannot find any trace of it upon the maps of the period; but may I suggest that its northern termination still exists in that narrow passage opposite the east end of the Music Hall, between Messrs. McHattie’s warehouse and St. Werburgh Chambers? Webb, in 1621, refers to it as "Peen Lane.""