New Bridge Street

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

South from Fleet Street to Blackfriars Bridge (P.O. Directory). On the boundary of Farringdon Ward Without and Farringdon Ward Within.


First erected 1764.

Site formerly occupied by Fleet ditch, or New Canal, the course of the Fleet River.

See The Fleet.

So named as leading directly to Blackfriars Bridge.

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