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Botolph lane, Little Eastcheap. †
Botolph's alley, Botolph lane.†
Botolph's court, Durham yard.
Botolph's wharf, Thames street.†
Bottle alley, Bishopsgate street without.*
Bottle of hay yard, Islington road.*
Bottle yard, Bottle alley.*
Boulton street, Hyde Park road.†
Bourne's Almshouse, in Kingsland Road,
was erected in the year 1734, by the
company of Framework-knitters, pursu-
ant to the will of Thomas Bourne, Esq;
who bequeathed to that company 1000l.
to purchase ground, and erect a building
upon it of twelve rooms, for that num-
ber of poor freemen or their widows,
and endowed this almshouse with 2000l.
to be laid out in a purchase of 80l. a
year.
Bow, a village in Middlesex, a little to the
east of Mile-end, also called Stratford
le Bow; is named Bow, from the stone
arches of its bridge built over the river
Lea, by Maud the wife of Henry I.
Its church built by Henry II. was a
chapel of ease to Stepney; but was
lately made parochial.
This village is inhabited by many
whitsters and scarlet dyers, and here
has lately been set up a large manufac-
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tury of porcelain, which is brought to
such perfection as to be very little infe-
rior to that of China.
Bow church, in Cheapside. See St. Mary
le Bow.
Bow church yard, Cheapside.
Bow lane. 1. Cheapside, so named from
the church of St. Mary le Bow, near
the north west end of it. 2. New
Gravel lane. 3. Poplar.
Bow road, Mile end, leading to the village
of Stratford le Bow.
Bow street. 1. A very handsome street by
Covent Garden. 2. Long Ditch. 3. St.
Giles's Broad street. 4. Sutton street,
Hog lane, Soho.
Bowl alley, St. Saviour's Dock head.
Bowl court, Shoreditch.
Bowl yard, St. Giles's Broadway.
Bowling alley. 1. Cow Cross. 2. Dean's
yard, Westminster. 3. Thames street.
4. Tooley street. 5. Turnmill street.
6. Whitecross street, Cripplegate.
Bowling Green. 1. Bandy Leg walk.
2. Near Hospital walk.
Bowling Green alley, Hoxton.
Bowling Green passage, Queen street,
Southwark.†
Bowling Green field, Blue Maid's alley.†
Bowling Green lane, Bridewell walk,
Clerkenwell.
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