Field Lane was an alley in Saffron Hill, in the modern borough of Camden (London, England). It is the setting for Fagin's den in Dickens's Oliver Twist. A history and description of how the area has changed is available on Andrea Gibbon's website, Writing Cities: https://www.writingcities.com/2015/02/13/field-lane-and-larceny-then-and...

In London Labour and the London Poor edition: 

Phase 1

Statement of a Returned Convict. (Volume 3): "While we were in London it was a merry life, with change of scene, for we travelled about. We were successful in nearly all our plans for several months. I worked in Fleet Street, and could make 3l. a-week at handkerchiefs alone, sometimes falling across a pocket-book. The best handkerchiefs then brought 4s. in Field-lane."

Phase 2 

Of the Dress of the Costermongers. (Volume 1)

Of the Old Clothes Exchange. (Volume 2)