Bloomsbury Square, London; now called George Street, St. Giles. Made familiar by a well-known song in Bombastes Furioso:
“My lodging is in heather lane,
A parlour that’s next to the sky …”
Rhodes.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.