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'''Bow Street''' is a thoroughfare in [[Covent Garden]], [[Westminster]] [[London]]. It features as one of the streets on the standard London [[Monopoly (game)|Monopoly]] board.

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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]].

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The house at No. 4 Bow Street had been established as a courtroom in [[1739]] by Sir [[Thomas de Veil]]. The house was taken over by the [[novelist]] [[Henry Fielding]] in [[1747]] when he became a [[Justice of the Peace]]. He was appointed a [[Westminster]] [[magistrate]] in 1748 at a time when the craze for [[gin]] and resultant crime was at its height. There were eight licensed premises on the street and Fielding reported that every fourth house in Covent Garden was a gin shop. In [[1749]] as a response to the call to find an effective means to tackle the increasing crime and disorder, Fielding brought together eight trustworthy [[constable]]s, who soon gained a reputation for honesty and efficiency in their pursuit of criminals. Initially nicknamed Robin Redbreasts, on account of their scarlet waistcoats, the constables came to be known as the [[Bow Street Runners]]. Fielding's blind half brother Sir [[John Fielding]] (known as the "Blind Beak of Bow Street") succeeded his brother as magistrate in [[1754]] and refined the patrol into first truly effective police force for the capital.

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When the [[Metropolitan Police Service]] was established in [[1829]], a station house was sited at numbers 25 and 27. A purpose built police station and courthouse was built on the site between [[1878]] and [[1881]]. Bow Street became one of the most famous police stations in the country. Bow Street magistrate's court remains the one of the most important magistrates courts in London, hearing the committal proceedings for many high profile cases.

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