WELCH COPPER OFFICE, in Philpot lane, Fenchurch street, is under the government of a company first incorporated by letters patent granted by King William III. in the year 1694, by the stile of the Governor and company of copper miners of the principality of Wales: by which charter they are allowed to purchase lands, tenements, _&c._ in mortmain, without limitation. _Maitland._ WELL _alley_, 1. in the Minories: 2. near Tooley street, Southwark: 3. Ropemakers fields, Limehouse. WELL AND BUCKET _alley_, Old street. WELL AND BUCKET _court_, Old street. WELLBECK _street_, a handsome new street, by Marybone fields, built on the estate of the late Earl of Oxford, and thus named from Wellbeck his Lordship’s seat in Hertfordshire. WELLBECK _mews_, a street of stables, coach-houses, _&c._ by Wellbeck street. WELLCLOSE _square_, by the upper end of Rosemary lane, by some called _Marine square_, from the number of sea officers who live there. It is a neat square of no great extent; its principal ornament is the Danes church, situated in the centre, in the midst of a church-yard well planted with trees, and surrounded by a handsome wall adorned at equal distances with iron rails. This church is a commodious and elegant structure. Though the architect appears to have understood ornaments, he has not been too lavish in the use of them. The edifice consists of a tall and handsome body, with a tower and turret. The body is divided by the projection of the middle part, into a fore front in the center, and two smaller: at the west end is the tower, and at the east it swells into the sweep of circle; the corners of the building are faced with rustic. The windows, which are large and well proportioned, are cased with stone with a cherub’s head at the top of the arch, and the roof is concealed by a blocking course. The tower has a considerable diminution in the upper stage, which has on each side, a pediment, and is covered by a dome, from which rises an elegant turret, supported by composite columns. WELL _court_, 1. Glean alley, Tooley street: 2. Queen street, Cheapside: 3. Shoe lane, Fleet street. WELL _yard_, 1. Church-yard alley, Rosemary lane: 2. Little Britain. WELLS, a rivulet which anciently ran through a part of this metropolis, and was called the river of Wells, and was thus named from its having many springs uniting to supply its current. It afterwards obtained the name of Turnmill brook, from certain mills erected upon it, by the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, which appellation is still preserved in a street of that name called Turnmill street, through part of which this water took its course, towards the bottom of Holbourn hill, and thence into the Thames. _Maitland._ WELLS _row_, Islington. WELLS _street_, 1. Coverlid’s fields, East Smithfield.† 2. Great Jermain street.† 3. Hackney.† WELLS _yard_, 1. Mainhard street, near St. Giles’s Pound.† 2. Wells row, Islington. WENCHES _yard_, in the Minories.║