London and Its Environs Described, vol. 3 (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. 3 (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
GARDINER’S _lane_, 1. High Timber street. 2. King street, Westminster.
3. Maiden lane. 4. Neathouse lane. 5. Petty France, Westminster. 6.
Willow street.
GARDINER’S _row_, Chelsea.
GARLAND _alley_, Bishopsgate street.
GARLAND _court_, 1. Ocean street, Stepney. 2. Trinity lane.
GARLIC _hill_, Thames street; so called from the garlick market formerly
held thereabout. _Stow._
GARRAT _street_, Cock lane, Shoreditch.†
GARRET’S _Almshouse_, in Porter’s fields, and in the liberty of Norton
Falgate, was founded in the year 1729, by Nicholas Garret, Esq;
citizen and weaver, for the accommodation of six poor members of his
company, each of whom has also an annual allowance of 8_l._, a
chaldron of coals, and dozen and a half of candles. _Maitland._
GARRET’S _rents_, Coleman street.†
GARTER _court_, Barbican.*
GARTER _yard_, Ratcliff Highway.
GASSON, a village in the parish of Blechingley, in Surry, at the source
of the river Medway.
GATEHOUSE, Tothill street, Westminster, is so called from two gates,
erected there in the reign of Edward III. Here is a prison for debtors
and criminals.
GATE _street_, Lincoln’s Inn fields.
GATTON, a very small borough in Surry, eighteen miles from London, under
the side of a hill in the road to Ryegate. This is a very ancient
town; and from the Roman coins and other antiquities found there, is
supposed to have been well known to the Romans; but though it is a
borough by prescription, and has sent members to parliament ever since
the 29th of Henry VI. and though it was formerly a large and populous
place, it now resembles a very mean village; it having only a small
church, and neither a fair nor market. The members are returned by its
constable, who is annually chosen at the Lord of the manor’s court.
This parish is famous for a quarry of white stone, which, though very
soft, will endure the fire admirably well; but neither the sun nor the
air; on which account it is much used for glass houses, and by
chemists and bakers.
GAUNT’S _key_. Thames street.†
GENEVA _row_, Tyburn road.†
GENTEE’S _passage_, Nibb’s Pound.†
GEORGE _alley_, 1. Aldgate street, within.* 2. Bishopsgate street.* 3.
In the Borough.* 4. Coleman street.* 5. Field lane, at the bottom of
Holborn hill.* 6. George street, York buildings.* 7. Holles street,
Clare market.* 8. King Tudor’s street.* 9. Lombard street, Gracechurch
street.* 10. Lower Shadwell. 11. St. Margaret’s hill.* 12. New George
street, Spitalfields.* 13. Rotherhith.* 14. Saffron hill.* 15. Shoe
lane, Fleet street.* 16. Stony street.* 17. In the Strand.* 18. Thames
street.* 19. Turnmill street.* 20. York buildings.*
GEORGE AND VULTURE _alley_, Cornhill.*
[Illustration:
_S. Wale delin._ _Elliot sculp._
_Bloomsbury Church._
]
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