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
BUSHY, a small village near Watford in Hertfordshire, adjoining to which
is a spacious common, called _Bushy Heath_, extending towards
Stanmore, in the county of Middlesex. This heath rises to a
considerable height, and from its top affords a most delightful
prospect. On the one hand we have a view of St. Alban’s, and of all
the space between, which appears like a garden: the inclosed corn
fields seem like one grand parterre: the thick planted hedges resemble
a wilderness or labyrinth: the villages interspersed thro’ the
landscape, appear at a distance like a multitude of gentlemen’s seats.
To the south east is seen Westminster Abbey, more to the south appears
Hampton Court, and on the south west Windsor Castle, with the Thames
winding between both, through the most beautiful parts of Middlesex
and Surry, its banks adorned with towns, and a multitude of
magnificent seats of the nobility.
BUTCHERHALL _lane_, Newgate street. Formerly a market being kept in
Newgate street, the slaughter houses of the butchers were in this
lane, when from the nastiness of the place it was called stinking
lane: but the market being removed after the fire, and this lane
rebuilt, here the company of butchers had their hall, whence it took
its name.
BUTCHER _row_, 1. East Smithfield. 2. Ratcliff cross. 3. Without Temple
Bar.
BUTCHERS, a fraternity that seems to have been very ancient, since they
were fined by Henry II. in the year 1180, as an _adulterine_ guild,
for being set up without the King’s licence; though they were not
incorporated till the year 1605. This company consists of a Master,
five Wardens, twenty-one Assistants, and two hundred and fourteen
Liverymen, who pay a fine of 2_l._ each upon their admission into the
livery. They have a neat and convenient hall in Pudding lane, in which
are three handsome rooms neatly wainscoted and adorned with fretwork.
BUTCHER’S _alley_, 1. Cable street. 2. St. John street, West Smithfield.
3. Windmill hill, Moorfields.
BUTCHERS ARMS _yard_, Goswell street.*
BUTCHER’S _close_, King street, Moorfields.
BUTCHER’S _dock_, Rotherhith wall†
BUTCHER’S _yard_, Brick lane.
BUTLER’S _alley_, 1. Grub street, Cripplegate.† 2. Windmill hill row.†
BUTLER’S _Almshouse_, in Little Chapel street, Westminster, was founded
by Mr. Nicholas Butler, in the year 1675, who endowed it with 12_l._
_per annum_. It consists of only two large rooms, for two poor men and
their wives.
BUTLER’S _court_, Houndsditch.†
BUTLER’S _yard_, Monkwell street.†
BUTTERFLY _court_, Grub street, Cripplegate.*
BUTTERMILK _alley_, Phenix street, Spitalfields.
BUTT’S _street_, Lambeth.†
BUTTONMOULD _row_, Dean’s court, St. Martin’s le Grand.
BYAS _rents_, Crucifix lane.
BYFIELD’S _passage_, Petticoat lane.†
BYFIELD’S _rents_, Petticoat lane.†
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