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According to Latham’s Companion volume… Until 1549 there was a bridge carrying the road over a lane and a stream. The bridge was demolished for the building of Somerset House. The name of Strand Bridge was then given to the lane that now went around the east end of the House.

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References in the diary

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Feb: 11