South out of Upper Thames Street at No. 1 at the southern end of St. Andrew's Hill (P.O. Directory). In Castle Baynard Ward.
First mention: Leake, 1666.
Former name : " Puddle Wharf," temp. Eliz. (Proc. in Chanc. II. 242).
Stow says it was so named of one Puddle, that kept a wharf on the west side and now of Puddle water by means of many horses watered there. A water-gate there (S. 41, 366).
Called in records the West Water-gate (Hatton, 1708).
A Dictionary of London. Henry A Harben. 1918.