London and Its Environs Described, vol. 5 (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. 5 (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
NEWINGTON GREEN, a pleasant village between Islington and Stoke Newington,
chiefly consisting of a handsome square of a considerable extent
surrounded by houses which are in general well built; before each side
is a row of trees, and an extensive grass plat in the middle. It is in
the parish of Stoke Newington; on one side of the ground is a meeting
house. See STOKE NEWINGTON.
NEW INN, contiguous to St. Clement’s Inn, in Wych street, is one of the
Inns of Chancery, and was founded about the year 1485, for the reception
of the students of an Inn of Chancery, at the south east corner of
Seacoal lane.
New Inn is an appendage to the Middle Temple, and is governed by a
Treasurer and twelve Ancients, who, with the other members, are to be in
commons a week every term, or to compound for the same. _Maitland._
NEW INN _court_, Wych street.
NEW INN _passage_, Houghton street, Clare market.
NEW INN _yard_, Holiwell street, Shoreditch.
NEW _lane_, Shad Thames.
NEWMAN’S _court_, 1. In Cornhill.† 2. Farmer’s street, Shadwell.†
NEWMARKET _street_, Wapping.
NEW MARTEN _street_, Near East Smithfield.†
NEW NICOL _street_, Swanfields, Shoreditch.†
NEW NORTH _street_, Theobald’s row, Red Lion street, Holborn.
NEW PACKTHREAD _alley_, Grange road, Bermondsey.
NEW PACKTHREAD _yard_, Westminster.
NEW PALACE _yard_, by Union street, Westminster. When King Richard II.
rebuilt Westminster Hall in the year 1397, that part was called the New
Palace, and being inclosed with a wall, it had four gates, of which that
leading to Westminster stairs is the only one now standing. The three
others that have been demolished were, one on the north, which led to
the Woolstaple; another to the west, a beautiful and stately edifice
called High Gate, at the east end of Union street; and another at the
north end of St. Margaret’s lane. _Maitland._
NEW PARK, in Surry. See RICHMOND.
NEW PARADISE _street_, Rotherhith.
NEW PASSAGE, 1. Bull and Mouth street, St. Martin’s le Grand. 2. Newgate
market.
NEW PETER _street_, Peter street.
NEWPORT _alley_, Newport street, near Newport market.
NEWPORT _court_, Little Newport street, near Long Acre.
NEWPORT MARKET, Litchfield street, a square with shops round it, with a
market house in the middle, in which are shops for butchers, &c.
NEWPORT _street_, Castle street, near Newport market.
NEW PRISON, near the east end of Clerkenwell green, is a house of
correction for the county of Middlesex, in which rogues and vagabonds
are kept to hard labour. It was erected in the year 1615.
NEW PRISON _walk_, a passage leading to the New Prison, Clerkenwell.
NEW PUMP _court_, Moor lane, Cripplegate.
NEW PYE _street_, by Orchard street, Westminster.
NEW QUEEN _street_, Oxford street.
NEW RAG FAIR, Rosemary lane, Little Tower hill.
NEW RENTS, 1. Compter lane, St. Margaret’s hill. 2. St. Martin’s le Grand.
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