- Watch House
- At the south-east corner of St. Sepulchre's Church Yard on the north side of Snow Hill (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 245).Site now covered by Holborn Viaduct.
A Dictionary of London. Henry A Harben. 1918.
Watch House
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