Long Acre, so called from its being built on a long narrow piece of ground, anciently called The Seven Acres. It begins at Drury lane, by the end of Great Queen street, and reaches to St. Martin’s lane.
Long Alley, 1. Black Friars. 2. Cable street. 3. Moor fields. 4. In the Strand.
Long Bow String Makers, a company by prescription, and not by charter: but which still subsists, though bows and arrows have been so long out of use. It has, however, a coat of arms, and is governed by two Wardens and nineteen Assistants; but this fraternity have neither hall nor livery. Maitland.
Long Cellar court, 1. Lower East Smithfield. 2. St. Catharine’s.
Long court, near Whitechapel.
Long ditch, Tothill street, Westminster. This street took its name from a water course there so called. Maitland.
Long lane, 1. Aldersgate street. 2. Barnaby street. 3. Shoreditch.
Long walk, 1. Christ’s hospital. 2. Cross Keys court, Whitecross street, Cripplegate. 3. King John’s court, Barnaby street.
Long’s alley, Roper lane in Crucifix lane, Barnaby street.†
Long’s court, 1. Jamaica street, Rotherhith.† 2. Near Leicester fields.†