Green’s Dictionary of Slang

used generically as a reference to prostitutes or prostitution.

1665		‘R.M.’ Scarronides 48: Have you not heard of Whetstones Park?
c.1671		T. Shadwell letter to Wycherley in Weales (1967) n.p.: If they break Windows when they’re Drunk, / And at late hours, wake Whetstone’s Punk, / That has all day been hard at Service, / With Clerk and Prentice, Tim and Gervas.
1672		J. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 62: he’s no Swash-buckler, nor no Ranter / Nor drunken Park of Whetstone haunter.
1678		Dryden Kind Keeper V i: I find you have been searching for your Relations then, in Whetstone’s Park!
1690		‘Teague’ Teagueland Jests I 123: Teague had [...] languished under a strange heat in his Cod-piece; he had called Venus all the Bitches in nature, and put Whetstones-Park into his daily Litany.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Whet-stones-park, a Lane . . .fam’d for a Nest of Wenches, now de-park’d.
1741		N. Rowe ‘Horace’s Integer Vitae’ in Atkins Sex in Literature IV 185: A Whisker of such hideous Mien / In Whetstone’s-Park was never seen.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Whetstone’s park. A lane between Holborn and Lincoln’s-inn Fields, formerly famed for being the resort of women of the town.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].