Battersey, a village in Surrey, situated on the river Thames, four miles from London, and at the same distance from Richmond. The gardens about this place are noted for producing the finest asparagus. It gave the title of baron to the late Lord Viscount St. John, who had a seat here, which is a plain old building. Here Sir Walter St. John founded a free school for twenty boys.
Bates street, Ratcliff highway.†
Bath court, Queen street.
Bath street. 1. Cold Bath fields, thus named from the Cold Bath near it. 2. Welbeck street, thus named from the Earl of Bath.
Battlebridge. 1. Gray’s inn lane, 2. Mill lane, Tooley street, Southwark; it was so called from Battle’s abbey; it standing over a water-course, which flows out of the Thames, and formerly belonged to that abbey. This bridge was therefore built and repaired by the Abbots of that house. Stow.
Battlebridge stairs, near Mill lane, Tooley street.
Batt’s rents, Whitechapel Common.†
Baxter’s court, Church street, Hackney.†
Baynard’s castle lane, Thames street, so called from a castle of that name built there by William Baynard Lord of Dunmow. Camden.
Bayning’s Almshouse, in Gunpowder alley, Crutched Friars, was erected in the year 1631, by Paul Viscount Sudbury, for ten poor housekeepers; but being surrendered to the parish, they have made it their almshouse.