BRIDGE WARD _within_, is thus named from London bridge, and is bounded on the south by Southwark, and the river Thames; on the east, by Billingsgate ward; on the north, by Langborne ward; and on the west, by Candlewick and Dowgate wards. It begins at the south end of London bridge, from which it extends northward up Gracechurch street, to the corner of Lombard street, including all the bridge, the greatest part of the alleys and courts on the east side, and on the west, all the alleys, courts and lanes in Thames street, on both sides to New key, part of Michael’s lane, and part of Crooked lane. The principal streets are New Fish street and Gracechurch street; and the principal buildings, London bridge, the parish churches of St. Magnus, and St. Bennet’s Gracechurch street; Fishmongers hall, and the Monument. This ward is governed by an Alderman, and his Deputy, fourteen other Common Council men, sixteen wardmote inquest men, six scavengers, fifteen constables, and a beadle; and the jurymen returned by the wardmote inquest serve in the several courts of Guildhall in the month of July. BRIDGE WARD _without_, contains the whole borough of Southwark, extending southward from the bridge to Newington; to the south west almost to Lambeth; and to the east to Rotherhith. The principal streets are, the Borough, Blackman street, Long lane, Kent street, Tooley street, St. Olave’s street, and Bermondsey street; and the most remarkable buildings are the parish churches of St. Olave, St. Mary Magdalen Bermondsey, St. Saviour, St. George, and St. Thomas; the prisons of the King’s bench, the Marshalsea, the New prison, and the Clink; St. Thomas’s hospital, Guy’s hospital and the Lock. This ward is only nominally governed by an Alderman and three Deputies, but has no Common Council men; it has, however, twenty wardmote inquest men, sixteen constables and a bailiff. _Stow’s Survey._ BRIDGE _yard_, Tooley street. BRIDGE _yard passage_, Tooley street. BRIDGE’S _rents_, in Fair street, Horselydown.† BRIDGE’S _street_, Russel street, Covent Garden.† BRIDGEMAN’S _yard_, Water lane, Black Friars.† BRIDGEWATER _gardens_, Bridgewater square, a street so called from its being built on the spot where was the Earl of Bridgewater’s gardens. BRIDGEWATER _passage_, Bridgewater square. BRIDGEWATER _square_, Barbican, a small neat square, surrounded with plain, but not unhandsome houses. In the area is a grass plat encompassed with iron rails, within which the trees are set thick in the manner of a grove. This square, and several of the adjoining streets, were built on the ground where the Earl of Bridgewater had a large house and garden fronting Barbican. BRIDGEWATER _street_, Bridgewater square. BRIDLE _lane_, Brewer’s street. BRIGG’S _alley_, Thrall street, Spitalfields.† BRIGHAM’S _yard_, Chandois street.† BRIMSTONE _court_, Rosemary lane. BRIMSTONE _yard_, Rosemary lane.