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Street Nomenclature.
Caroline Mews and Tavistock Street have been
incorporated by the London County Council as one street,
and named Bedford Avenue.
Closing of Streets.
On the application of the adjoining inhabitants, Princes
Court, which was a narrow thoroughfare running between
Drury Lane and Great Wild Street, and which for a
long time had been complained of, as insanitary, was
ordered by the Justices of the Peace to be closed as a
public-way.
Application to close Clarke's Mews and Hampshire Hog
Yard, which formed a line of thoroughfare between High
Street and Dyott Street, was made by the owners of the
adjacent property, who claimed the freehold of the
thoroughfare. The Board, who had for many years
maintained portions of the same as public-ways by paving,
lighting and sewering the same, resolved after considerable
negotiations with the owners to support the application,
and an order was eventually made by the Magistrates
assenting to the application, and the thoroughfare was
given over to the owners and is now maintained by them.
New Street, a small cul de sac leading out of the
northern end of Dyott Street and abutting on premises
belonging to Messrs. Meux and Co., was on their application
ordered by the Justices to be discontinued as a publicway,
Messrs. Meux and Co., in consideration of the site
of the street being given up to them, contributing a
sum of money towards the cost of constructing the