DARTFORD, a town in Kent, sixteen miles from London, is more properly called _Darentford_, from its being situated on the river Darent, which runs through it, and at a small distance falls into the Thames. The town has a harbour for barges, and is finely watered by two or three good springs. King Edward III. had a general tournament performed here by his nobles, and also here founded a convent, whose abbess and nuns were, for the most part, of the noblest families in the kingdom; and this convent King Henry VIII. turned into a palace. Henry VI. founded an almshouse here in honour of the Trinity, to which the church is dedicated, for five poor decrepid men, to be governed by the Vicar and Wardens, who were constituted a body corporate, with a common seal, and a power to assign lands and rents to the hospital, to the value of 20_l._ _per annum_. On this river the first paper mill in England was erected by Sir John Spilman, who obtained a patent and 200_l._ a year from King Charles I. to enable him to carry on that manufacture: and on this river was also the first mill for slitting iron bars for making wire. The town is full of inns and other public houses, on account of its being a great thoroughfare to Canterbury and Dover. The market, which is on Saturdays, is chiefly for corn, and the town has the honour of giving the title of Viscount to the Earl of Jersey. DARTMOUTH _street_, Tothill street. DART’S _alley_, Whitechapel.† DART’S _rents_, Long alley, Moorfields.† DASHWOOD’S _wharf_, at the Old Swan, Thames street.† DATCHET, a pleasant village in Buckinghamshire, situated near Windsor, is noted for its horse races, and has a bridge over the Thames built in the reign of Queen Anne. At a small distance is Ditton Park. DAVID AND HARP _alley_, Whitechapel.* DAVID AND HARP _court_, Grub street.* DAVID _street_, Grosvenor square. DAVIS _yard_, Coventry street.† DAVIS’S _rents_, Kent street, Southwark.† DAWSON’S _alley_, St. Martin’s lane, Charing Cross.† DAWSON’S _rents_, Old Gravel lane.† DAY’S _court_, 1. Gutter lane.† 2. Old Change, Cheapside.† DEACON’S _court_, Quakers street, Spitalfields.† DEADMAN’S _place_, near Dirty lane, Southwark. DEAL _street_, Coverley’s fields. DEAN AND FLOWN _street_, Fashion street. DEAN’S _court_, 1. Bedfordbury.† 2. Dean street, Fetter lane.† 3. Dean street, Red Lion square, Holborn.† 4. Dean street, Soho.† 5. Great Carter lane. 6. Little Old Bailey. 7. St. Martin’s le Grand.† 8. New Round court in the Strand.† 9. St. Paul’s Church yard, where the house belonging to the Dean of St. Paul’s stands. DEAN’S _passage_, Huggen lane, Thames street. DEAN _street_, 1. A very neat street in Fetter lane, Fleet street.† 2. High Holborn.† 3. Little Cock hill, Shadwell.† 4. Soho.† 5. Tyburn lane.† 6. Westminster.