Brewer's: Tooley Street

A corruption of St. Olaf—i.e. 'T-olaf, Tolay, Tooly. Similarly, Sise Lane is St. Osyth's Lane.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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