I have copied an extract from the history of the Metropolitan Police web page that gives two possible exlanations for the name. The term "New Police" refers to the service after the "Bow street Runners, police attached to magistrates courts and the river police were consolidated into one police force.
Nobody appears to be certain:
"The task of organising and designing the "New Police" was placed in the hands of Colonel Charles Rowan and Richard Mayne (later Sir Richard Mayne}. These two Commissioners occupied a private house at 4, Whitehall Place, the back of which opened on to a courtyard. The back premises of 4 Whitehall Place were used as a police station. It was this address that led to the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police being known as Scotland Yard. The exact origin of the name is not clear and the following two stories have both gained credence at various times:
It is said the location had been the site of a residence owned by the Kings of Scotland before the Union and used and occupied by them and/or their ambassadors when in London, and known as '"Scotland". The courtyard was later used by Sir Christopher Wren and known as "Scotland Yard".
Number 4 Whitehall Place backed onto a court called Great Scotland Yard, one of three streets incorporating the words "Scotland Yard" in its name. The street names are said to have derived from the land being owned by a man called Scott during the Middle Ages.
By 1887 the Police HQ embraced numbers 3, 4, 5, 21 and 22 Whitehall Place, numbers 8 and 9 Great Scotland Yard, numbers 1, 2 and 3 Palace Place and various stables and outbuildings as well as a freestanding building in the centre of the Yard that had successively held stores, the Public Carriage Office and the CID offices."
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site doesn't give a reason for the name "New Scotland Yard", only the history (below)
The original site for New Scotland Yard", a red and white brick Victorian Gothic building designed by Norman Shaw was located on Victoria Embankment, SW1 adjacent to Cannon Row police station and built specifically to be the new Police Headquarters.
The building was the site of the unsolved Whitehall Mystery (1888) when a woman's torso was concealed in the cellar by night as the building work was in progress. Its main gates provided a background in many police films, and it held the original telephone number Whitehall 1212. However, the offices were cramped and inadequate and relocation was made essential by the 1960s.
Maybe it was associated with the murder undertaken on the site
Its easy and simple question.....There was a huge yard where people generally the intellectuals do some brainstorming sessions and then solve the cases at hand
The name derives from the headquarters's original location on Great Scotland Yard, a street off Whitehall.
The exact origins of this name are unknown, though popular explanations
include: that it had once been the site of a diplomatic mission owned
by the Kings of Scotland prior to the Union of England and Scotland; that the street was owned by a man called Scott during the Middle Ages; or that stagecoaches bound to Scotland once departed from the street.
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I have copied an extract from the history of the Metropolitan Police web page that gives two possible exlanations for the name. The term "New Police" refers to the service after the "Bow street Runners, police attached to magistrates courts and the river police were consolidated into one police force.
Nobody appears to be certain:
"The task of organising and designing the "New Police" was placed in the hands of Colonel Charles Rowan and Richard Mayne (later Sir Richard Mayne}. These two Commissioners occupied a private house at 4, Whitehall Place, the back of which opened on to a courtyard. The back premises of 4 Whitehall Place were used as a police station. It was this address that led to the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police being known as Scotland Yard. The exact origin of the name is not clear and the following two stories have both gained credence at various times:
It is said the location had been the site of a residence owned by the Kings of Scotland before the Union and used and occupied by them and/or their ambassadors when in London, and known as '"Scotland". The courtyard was later used by Sir Christopher Wren and known as "Scotland Yard".
Number 4 Whitehall Place backed onto a court called Great Scotland Yard, one of three streets incorporating the words "Scotland Yard" in its name. The street names are said to have derived from the land being owned by a man called Scott during the Middle Ages.
By 1887 the Police HQ embraced numbers 3, 4, 5, 21 and 22 Whitehall Place, numbers 8 and 9 Great Scotland Yard, numbers 1, 2 and 3 Palace Place and various stables and outbuildings as well as a freestanding building in the centre of the Yard that had successively held stores, the Public Carriage Office and the CID offices."
Hope this answers your question.
Has always stuck in my mind Whitehall 1212.
It was a good question athernaqi. In fact I might even write to The Met and ask!
that telephone number for Scotland Yard used to make some of us giggle - used to say:
Call Whitehall one two one two if you wanto.
Probably loses something in translation and, anyway, is a very childish joke.
They use to call the CIA "the company" is interesting How the CIA was founded, but in actually who started all was THE FBI! The Red Pope of Qatar LivingBut as Muhammad Ali once said, 'It's not bragging, if you can back it up'."
site doesn't give a reason for the name "New Scotland Yard", only the history (below)
The original site for New Scotland Yard", a red and white brick Victorian Gothic building designed by Norman Shaw was located on Victoria Embankment, SW1 adjacent to Cannon Row police station and built specifically to be the new Police Headquarters.
The building was the site of the unsolved Whitehall Mystery (1888) when a woman's torso was concealed in the cellar by night as the building work was in progress. Its main gates provided a background in many police films, and it held the original telephone number Whitehall 1212. However, the offices were cramped and inadequate and relocation was made essential by the 1960s.
Maybe it was associated with the murder undertaken on the site
Its easy and simple question.....There was a huge yard where people generally the intellectuals do some brainstorming sessions and then solve the cases at hand
The name derives from the headquarters's original location on Great Scotland Yard, a street off Whitehall.
The exact origins of this name are unknown, though popular explanations
include: that it had once been the site of a diplomatic mission owned
by the Kings of Scotland prior to the Union of England and Scotland; that the street was owned by a man called Scott during the Middle Ages; or that stagecoaches bound to Scotland once departed from the street.
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