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
GONSON’S _rents_, Bluegate fields, Upper Shadwell.†
GOODCHILD’S _alley_, Market street, Westminster.
GOODMAN’S _fields_, a considerable piece of ground lying behind the
houses on the south side of Whitechapel, the east side of the
Minories, and the north side of Rosemary lane. Mr. Stow observes, that
in his time, this was a large field and farm kept by one Goodman,
whose son afterwards let it out, and lived like a gentleman upon the
rent it produced: and it still retains the same name, though it has
now no appearance of a field. It principally consists of four handsome
streets, inhabited by merchants, and other persons in affluent
circumstances: these streets are on the four sides, and in the center
is a tenter ground, which being surrounded by the houses, is excluded
from public view. About fifteen years ago there was a very neat but
small play house in one of these streets, and in this theatre Mr.
Garrick first distinguished himself as an actor.
GOODMAN’S _wharf_, St. Catharine’s.†
GOODMAN’S _yard_, In the Minories, leading into Goodman’s fields.†
GOOD’S _rents_, In the Minories.†
GOODWIN’S _court_, 1. Oxford street.† 2. St. Martin’s lane, Chancery
lane.† 3. Noble street.†
GOODYEAR’S _rents_, Wapping.†
GOOSE _alley_, 1. Bow Church yard, Cheapside.* 2. Fleet Ditch.*
GOOSETREE’S _yard_, Peter street, Westminster.†
GORHAMBURY, a little to the west of St. Alban’s, was formerly the
paternal estate of the great Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, and Viscount
of St. Alban’s, and is now the seat of the Lord Viscount Grimston.
GOSLING’S _rents_, Swordbearer’s alley, Chiswell street.†
GOSSIPS _rents_, Tooley street.‖
GOSSIPS _row_, Glean alley, Tooley street.‖
GOSWELL _street_, extends in a line from the corner of Barbican, where
Aldersgate street ends, to Mount Mill.
GOUGH’S _square_, near Fleet street; a very small oblong square, with a
row on each side of handsome buildings.†
GOUGH’S _yard_, Back street, Lambeth.†
GOULD’S _court_, Woodrofe lane.†
GOULD’S _square_, Woodrofe lane.†
GOULSTON’S _square_, Whitechapel.†
GRACECHURCH _street_, Cornhill, was originally called Grass church
street, from a grass or herb market, near Allhallows Lombard street,
which from that market was called Grass church. _Stow._
GRACE _court_, Fenchurch street.
GRACE’S _alley_, Well street, Wellclose square.
GRAFTON _buildings_, Long lane.
GRAFTON _street_, Soho.
GRAHAM’S _Almshouse_, in Hog lane, Soho, was founded in the year 1686,
by Mrs. Graham, for four decayed Clergymen’s widows, their maiden
daughters, or other gentlewomen, each of whom has a handsome
apartment, and 10_l._ _per annum_; and for fuel and a servant to
attend them all, the additional sum of 10_l._ a year.
GRANGE, Near the King’s road.
GRANGE _court_, Carey street, Lincoln’s Inn fields.
GRANGE _lane_, Bermondsey.
GRANGE _road_, Bermondsey.
GRANGE _street_, Chapel street, in Red Lion street, Holborn.
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