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In its southward course the river presently reached Holborn Bridge , where it received the affluent called the Holbourne , which rose somewhere near St. Giles's . The existence of this brook is denied by some topographers , but it is ...
In its southward course the river presently reached Holborn Bridge , where it received the affluent called the Holbourne , which rose somewhere near St. Giles's . The existence of this brook is denied by some topographers , but it is ...
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At first it was , like all the other bridges on the Fleet , constructed of wood ; after its erection in stone ... According to Mr. Crosby , a great authority on the antiquities of the Fleet valley , Holborn Bridge consisted of four ...
At first it was , like all the other bridges on the Fleet , constructed of wood ; after its erection in stone ... According to Mr. Crosby , a great authority on the antiquities of the Fleet valley , Holborn Bridge consisted of four ...
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STRAND BRIDGE , not Waterloo Bridge , which originally was so called , but a “ fair bridge , " as Stow calls it , erected many hundred years ago over a brook which crossed the Strand opposite to the present Strand Lane , and descended ...
STRAND BRIDGE , not Waterloo Bridge , which originally was so called , but a “ fair bridge , " as Stow calls it , erected many hundred years ago over a brook which crossed the Strand opposite to the present Strand Lane , and descended ...
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