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THE PHOENIX/COCKPIT: "IT WAS AND IS USUALLY SAID TO BE IN DRURY LANE, BUT IT WAS ACTUALLY ABOUT MIDWAY BETWEEN DRURY LANE AND WILD STREET, BOTH OF WHICH RAN AND RUN NORTH AND SOUTH. IT WAS SERVED BY A NOW-DEFUNCT COCKPIT ALLEY, WHICH RAN EAST AND WEST FROM DRURY LANE TO WILD STREET ABOUT MIDWAY BETWEEN GREAT QUEEN AND PRINCESS (NOW KEMBLE) STREETS, ALSO RUNNING EAST AND WEST. THE ENTRANCE TO COCKPIT ALLEY WAS ABOUT OPPOSITE THE PRESENT ENTRANCE TO MARTLETT COURT ON THE WEST SIDE OF DRURY LANE. THE SITE OF THE PLAYHOUSE IS IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE PEABODY HOUSING ESTATE THAT NOW LIES BETWEEN DRURY LANE AND WILD STREET, W.C.2."

Source: Wickham, Berry, Ingram, English Professional Theatre, 1530-1660 Cambridge UP 2000, p. 623.