Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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halfway house, under 3 miles from London bridge
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from L&M Companion
Riverside eating-house halfway between London Bridge and Deptford, c. 1660-c. 1800. -
Note in 1786: there be two halfway houses, one on the main drag on Bell Lane nr Black Boy Lane and the other near China Hall, a couple of furlongs from the Tems near the a dock off the Thames river.