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Yeat’s court, 1. Clements lane, Temple bar.† 2. Redcross street.†

Yeat’s rents, Jamaica street.†

Yeat’s street, Lincoln’s Inn fields.†

Yellow street, in the Minories.

York alley, St. Mary Magdalen’s church-yard.

York buildings, in the Strand, so denominated from the Archbishop of York’s house there, purchased by Nicholas Heath the Archbishop, about the year 1556, of the Bishop of Norwich, but afterwards coming to John Duke of Buckingham, he demised the house and garden to several builders, and they erected there several handsome streets and alleys, in which his name and title are recorded, viz. John street, Villars street, Duke street, Off alley, and Buckingham street. However these streets together are still denominated York buildings.

York Buildings Waterworks, an edifice with a high tower, erected behind York buildings by the Thames, for raising water for the supply of that neighbourhood. The company to whom it belongs were incorporated by act of parliament in the year 1691.

York Buildings stairs, Terrace walk, York buildings. The beautiful design for these stairs is of the celebrated Inigo Jones, of the Tuscan order with rustic work, as the print shews, and is admirably adapted to the situation. The print is on the same plate with that of the Temple, which See.

York street, 1. Anchor street: 2. Bridges street: 3. Jermain street.

York yard, Long lane, East Smithfield.

Yorkshire court, 1. Mile-end New Town: 2. Whitechapel.

Yorkshire yard, 1. Bishopsgate street: 2. Brick lane.

Young’s Almshouse, in College church-yard, Southwark, was founded by Mr. Henry Young in the year 1694, for two poor women, with an allowance of only one shilling per week each. Maitland.

Young’s court, 1. Basinghall street.† 2. Nightingale lane.†

Young’s key, Thames street.†


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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