Windmill bank, Isle of Dogs, so called from windmills there.
Windmill court, 1. Coleman street.* 2. Pie corner, near Smithfield.* 3. Snow hill.*
Windmill hill, 1. Hatton wall: 2. Leather lane, Holbourn: 3. near Upper Moorfields. This last hill was raised by above a thousand cart loads of human bones, brought from St. Paul’s Charnel house and laid there in the year 1549, which being soon after covered with street dirt from the city, the place was converted into a lay stall, whereby the ground was so raised, that three windmills were erected upon it, whence it obtained its present name. Maitland.
Windmill Hill row, Upper Moorfields.☐
Windmill lane, Whitechapel.☐
Windmill street, 1. Haymarket*: 2. Tottenham Court road.
Windmill yard, Coleman street.*
Windsor, so called from its winding shore, is a pleasant, and well inhabited borough, twenty-three miles from London, agreeably situated on the south bank of the Thames, in the midst of delightful vallies. Its church is a spacious ancient building situated in the High street of the town, in which is also the town house, a neat regular edifice built in 1686, and supported with columns and arches of Portland stone; at the north end is placed in a niche the statue of Queen Anne, in her royal robes, with the globe and other regalia; and underneath, in the freeze of the entablature of the lesser columns and arches, is the following inscription in gold letters:
Anno Regni VIº.
Dom. 1707.
Arte tua, sculptor, non est imitabilis Anna;
Annæ vis similem sculpere? sculpe Deam
S. Chapman, Prætore.
And in another niche on the south side is the statue of Prince George of Denmark, her Majesty’s royal consort, in a Roman military habit, and underneath is the following inscription: