BRUSHFIELD STREET

   East out of Bishopsgate, at No. 238 (P.O. Directory). The western end only of the street is in Bishopsgate Ward Without, the greater part of it lying in Stepney, outside the City boundary.

   First named : February 25th, 1870 (L.C.C. List, 1901).

   Former name : "Union Street" (Horwood, 1799).

   The Black Horse Inn stood on this site in earlier times (Rocque, 1746).