London and Its Environs Described, vol. 2 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round ItAnonymous
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London and Its Environs Described, vol. 2 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It
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London (England) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; London (England) -- Gazetteers -- Early works to 1800
DOLPHIN _alley_, 1. Blackman street.* 2. St. Catharine’s court, St.
Catharine’s.* 3. Cock lane, Snow hill.* 4. Gun street,
Spitalfields.* 5. Long alley, Moorfields.* 6. Wapping.*
DOLPHIN _court_, 1. Gun street, Spitalfields.* 2. St. Catharine’s
lane.* 3. High Holborn.* 4. Little Distaff lane.* 5. Ludgate hill.*
6. Lombard street, Spitalfields.* 7. Noble street, Foster lane.* 8.
Tower street, Tower hill.*
DOLPHIN _yard_, 1. Blackman street.* 2. Butcher row, Ratcliff Cross.*
3. Dean street.* 4. Wapping.* 5. West Smithfield.*
DOLPHIN AND THREE COLTS _yard_, Crutched Friars.*
DOLPHIN _Inn yard_, Bishopsgate street.*
DONNE’S _alley_, Noble street, Foster lane.†
DONNET’S _court_, Maddox street.*
DORLSTON, a small but pleasant village near Hackney, to which parish
it belongs.
DORMER’S _hill_, by Stratton’s Grounds.†
DORRINGTON _street_, Cold Bath fields.†
DORSET _court_, 1. Canon row. 2. Dorset Gardens. 3. Gunpowder alley.
DORSET _gardens_, Salisbury court, so called from this place being
formerly the gardens belonging to the Earl of Dorset’s house.
DORSET _stairs_, Dorset street.☐
DORSET _street_, 1. Near Crispin street, Spitalfields. 2. Fleet
street, from the Earl of Dorset’s house, which formerly stood in
Salisbury court. See SALISBURY _court_. 3. Red Lion street.
DOUBLE HAND _court_, by Campion lane, Thames street.*
DOUBLE HOOD _court_, Campion lane.
DOVE _court_, 1. Addle hill, Great Carter lane.* 2. Gutter lane,
Cheapside.* 3. Labour in vain hill, Thames street.* 4. Leather
lane.* 5. Old Fish street.* 6. Old Jewry. 7. St. Swithin’s lane.* 8.
Turnmill street.* 9. White Friars.*
DOVER _court_, Dover street.
DOVER _street_, Piccadilly.
DOWGATE, according to Stow, was originally called _Downgate_, and was
only a principal key for ships and vessels, to load and land goods
and provisions: while Mr. Maitland contends for its being originally
the south gate of this city, where was anciently the _trajectus_, or
ferry of Watling street, one of the four great Roman military ways,
and that it was by the Britons, under the Roman government, called
Dourgate, that is Watergate.
DOWGATE _hill_, Thames street.
DOWGATE _stairs_, Couzen’s lane, Thames street.
DOWGATE WARD, is bounded on the north by Walbrook ward; on the west,
by Vintry ward; on the south, by the Thames; and on the east, by
Candlewick and Bridge wards: extending from St. Martin’s lane in the
east, to Cloak lane in the west, and from thence both east and west
to the Thames, in almost a strait line.
In this ward is the parish church of Allhallows the Great; and also
Plumbers hall, Watermens hall, Joiners hall, Innholders hall,
Skinners hall, and Tallow Chandlers hall; Merchant Taylor’s school,
and the Steel Yard.
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