Kent’s yard, Angel alley.†
Kettleby’s rents, at Kennington.†
Kettle yard, Redcross street.
Kew, a town in Surry, situated on the Thames, opposite to Old Brentford. Here is a chapel of ease, erected at the expence of several of the nobility and gentry in the neighbourhood, on a piece of ground that was given for that purpose by the late Queen Anne. Here the late Mr. Molineux, Secretary to his present Majesty when Prince of Wales, had a very fine seat on the Green, the gardens of which are said to produce the best fruit in England. This house belonged to the late Prince of Wales. Her late Majesty Queen Caroline here purchased Lady Eyre’s seat, for the Duke of Cumberland, and Sir Thomas Abney’s for the Princesses Amelia and Caroline.
In the sessions of parliament in 1758, an act passed for building a bridge cross the Thames opposite to Kew Green; and this act is now executed, and a bridge is built of eleven arches. The two piers and their dependent arches on each side next the shore are built of brick and stone, the intermediate arches, which are seven in number, are entirely wood. The center arch is fifty feet wide, and the road over the bridge is thirty feet wide.
Key court, 1. Little St. Thomas Apostles.* 2. St. John street, West Smithfield.*
Kidder’s yard, Petty France, Westminster.†
Kidney stairs, Narrow street.
Kifford’s Almshouse, at Tothill side, Westminster, was founded by Mrs. Judith Kifford, in the year 1705, for two decayed gentlewomen, each of whom has one room, and 5l. per annum.
Kilborn, a village in Middlesex, in the road from London to Edgworth, and in the parish of Hampstead.