- Bridewell Ditch
- A name given to the mouth of the Fleet and mentioned as the western boundary of the Blackfriars 1560 (Lond. I. p.m. I. 193).
A Dictionary of London. Henry A Harben. 1918.
Bridewell Ditch
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