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Haymarket
1, Pall Mall. (SW1) "Hay was sold here in the reign of Elizabeth; and Aggas's plan has "the Haymarket," with hedgerows and a few straggling houses, "and washerwomen then dried their linen on the grass "-where His Majesty's Theatre now stands. (Reference: Timbs's Curiosities of London, p. 428) "A very spacious and public street, length 340 yards, where is a great market or hay and straw" (Hatton, 1702) . |
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