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Blenheim street, Oxford street.
Blewgate fields, Ratcliff Highway.
Blewit's buildings, Fetter lane.†
Blewit's court, Fetter lane.†
Blick's row, Oxford row.†
Blind Beggars alley, Cow Cross.†
Blood's ground, Mersham street.†
Bloodworth's dock, Wapping.†
Bloodworth's yard, Wapping wall.
Bloody Bridge, King's Road, Chelsea.
Bloomsbury, the district thus named was
anciently a village denominated Loms-
bury, in which were the King's stables,
till they were destroyed by fire in 1354.
Maitland.
Bloomsbury church.  See St. George's
Bloomsbury.
Bloomsbury court, Bloomsbury market.
Bloomsbury market, by Bloomsbury
square.
Bloomsbury square, Southampton street,
Holborn.  This square has been lately
embellished with many goodhouses, and
the grass plats in the middle surrounded
with neat iron rails.  The north side is
entirely taken up with Bedford House,
which is elegant, and was the design of
Inigo Jones.  Besides the body of the
house, are two wings, and on each side
the proper offices.  One of the wings is
a
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a magnificient gallery in which are co-
pies of the Cartoons at Hampton Court,
as large as the originals, by Sir James
Thornhill.  Behind the house are exten-
sive gardens, which command a view of
the country, and particularly of High-
gate and Hampstead.
Blossom's Inn entry, Blossom's Inn yard,
Laurence lane, Cheapside.
Blossom's Inn yard, Honey lane market,
Cheapside.
Blossom's street.  1. Briant street.  2. White
Lion street, Norton Falgate.
Blowbladder street, from Cheapside
to St. Martin's le Grand.  It obtained its
present name from the bladders formerly
sold there, when the shambles were in
Newgate street.
Blow's court, Saffron hill.†
Blue Anchor alley.  1. Barnaby street.*
2. Brook's street, near Ratcliff Cross.*
3. Bunhill row.*  4. Cable street.*
5. Green Bank.*  6. Great Minories.*
7. Old street.*  8. Pesthouse row.*
9. Petty France.*  10. Rosemary
lane.*  11. St. Catharine's.*  12. Tooley
street.*  13. Tower ditch.*  14.
Whitecross street, Cripplegate.*
Blue Anchor court.  1. Butcher row,
without Temple Bar.*  2. Coleman
street.