Bow Street

Bow Street is a thoroughfare in Covent Garden, Westminster London. It features as one of the streets on the standard London Monopoly board.

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Covent Garden - Westminster - London - Monopoly

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The area around Bow Street was developed by the Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford in the 1630s. Oliver Cromwell moved to Bow Street in 1645. Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford was born there in 1661. No.4 served as a magistrates court from 1739 and the Bow Street Runners were founded there by Henry Fielding in the 1740s. When the Metropolitan Police Service was established in 1829, a station house was sited at numbers 25 and 27. The present Bow Street Magistrates' Court and police station was completed in 1881.

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Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford - 1630s - Oliver Cromwell - 1645 - Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford - 1661 - Bow Street Runners - Henry Fielding - Metropolitan Police Service - 1829 - Bow Street Magistrates' Court

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