Moland Street

The original name of Beresford Lane.

M’Cready gives, what he admits is, an uncertain explanation for the name,¹ but we can be confident that it derives from the owners of the land.

In 1721 the Corporation leased land on the nearby Mabbot Street from John Moland.² In 1780 a Richard Moland was in possession of land on Mabbot Street,³ so we can assume that Moland Street is named for the family.

1. M’Cready, p. 69.
2. CARD, vii, p. 180.
3. ‘Mabbot Street’ in Saunders’s News-Letter, 11 March 1780, p. 2.