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Barbican


City, 77, Aldersgate Street. (EC1) Named from its proximity to a barbican, or watch-tower, attached to the City walls. Milton lived here, also the poet's early patrons, the Bridgewater family. (Reference: Timbs's Curiosities of London, p. 32)

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