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1661 Cities Loyalty display'd 4 This Tree [sc. a maypole] was..made below Bridg, and brought in two parts up to Scotland-yard.

1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. c Below bridge, where the great Scene of Navigation lyes.

1715 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum (ed. 2) Hebberman, one that fishes below Bridge, commonly at ebbing Water, &c.

1877 T. H. Huxley Physiogr. i. 2 The water sweeps down below bridge in the direction of Greenwich.

1906 G. R. Sims Living London (rev. ed.) II. 243/1 There is plenty of pleasure and sport and fun to be obtained below bridge also, and found at Greenwich, Gravesend, Southend, Margate, Ramsgate, and elsewhere.

1998 D. Pool What Jane Austen ate & Charles Dickens Knew (new ed.) 16 From the standpoint of the riverfront, London Bridge really marked the entrance to the city; indeed, directions on the river were frequently given with reference to it as ‘above bridge’ or ‘below bridge.’