Grubstreet
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Grub Street:
Originally the name of a street in Moorfields in London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence any mean production is called grubstreet.
"Grubstreet" was the original name of The Open Guide to London.
Grubstreet! Thy fall should men and Gods conspire,
Thy stage shall stand, ensure it but from Fire.
- Alexander Pope, The Dunciad
OS X co-ord:
532557
OS Y co-ord:
181879
(Latitude:
51.519773
Longitude:
-0.089217)
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