AND ITS ENVIRONS DESCRIBED. CONTAINING An Account of whatever is most remarkable In the CITY and in the COUNTRY COMPREHENDING ALSO Whatever is most material in the History and An- Decorated and illuftrated with a great Number of Together with a PLAN of LONDON, VOL. II. LONDON: Printed for R. and J. DODSLEY in Pall-Mall. M DCC LXI. AND ITS ENVIRONS B DESCRIBED, &c BRE READ street ward, fo called from Bread ftreet in Cheapfide, which was formerly a bread market, is encompaffed on the north and north west by Faringdon ward; on the west by Caftle Baynard ward; on the fouth by Queenhithe ward; and on the east by Cordwainers ward. The principal streets in this ward are, Watling street, Bread ftreet, Friday street, Distaff lane, Bafing lane, with the east fide of the Old Change, from the corner of St. Auftin's church to Old Fish ftreet, and the north fide of Old Fish ftreet, and Trinity lane, with that part of the fouth fide of Cheapfide, between Friday ftreet and Bow church. The most remarkable places are, the parish churches of Allhallows Bread ftreet, and St. Mildred's; with Cordwainers hall. VOL. II. B This This ward is governed by an Alderman, his Deputy, and twelve other Common Council men, thirteen wardmote inqueft men, eight fcavengers, fixteen conftables, and a beadle. The jury returned by the inqueft for the ward, are to ferve in the several courts at Guildhall in the month of April. BREAKNECK alley, in the Minories.|| BREAKNECK court, Blackhorse alley, Fleet ftreet. BREECHES yard, Townfend lane. BREEZE's bill, Ratcliff highway. BREME's buildings, Chancery lane. † BRENTFORD, a town in Middlefex, fituated ten miles from London, received its name from a brook called Brent, which runs through the weft part of the town, called Old Brentford, into the Thames. As it is a great thoroughfare to the west, it has a confiderable trade, particularly in corn, both by land and the Thames. The church and market-house stand in that part of the town called New Brentford. It has also two charity schools; tho' the church is only a chapel to Great Eling. That part of it called Old Brentford is fituated upon a fine rifing bank close to the Thames, and is naturally capable of being made as beautiful a fpot as any |