Pudding Lane Roſe Lane, Rotherlane. Rother (Pudding) Lane. Formerly part of Rothersgate (alley), it was named after a watergate located there; suggesting river access for cattle. Pudding Lane Pudding Lane is a small street in London widely known as the location of Thomas Farriner's bakery where the Great Fire of London started in 1666. It is off Eastcheap, near London Bridge and the Monument, in the historic City of London. The site of Farriner's bakery on Pudding Lane is within the roadway of Monument Street (created 1886-7), on the east side of Pudding Lane. The oven and the small yard where Farriner
Robert Hubert doused properly— and three members of the family were present in the jury. Thomas Farynor stated that, after midnight, he had: gone through every room and found no fire, but in one chimney, where the room was paved with bricks, which fire I diligently raked up in embers [...] no window or door might let wind disturb them and that it was absolutely set on fire on purpose[...] Few of the jury at his trial actually believed Hubert guilty. One contemporary account claims that Hubert was "only accused upon his own confession; yet neither the judges nor any present at