watch-house
1watch house — noun 1. A house in which a guard is placed 2. A police station or lock up (old) • • • Main Entry: ↑watch …
2Watch House Village — is a small village in County Wexford, Ireland, on the River Derry. It is a twin village of the much larger Clonegal in County Carlow on the other side of the river, which forms the county boundary. HistoryIt is closely associated with the Irish… …
3Watch House Cruising Club — The Watch House Cruising club, on the towpath of the Bridgewater Canal in Stretford, Greater Manchester, was founded in 1964 and has grown in size over the past years so that at present it has 34 full members with boats and 15 associate members… …
4Watch House, Bishopsgate — See Old Watch House …
5watch-house — n. 1. Guard house. 2. Lock up, police station …
6watch house — /ˈwɒtʃ haʊs/ (say woch hows) noun 1. (in some States) a place where people are held under temporary arrest. 2. Chiefly British a house in which a guard is stationed. Also, watchhouse …
7Watch House — At the south east corner of St. Sepulchre s Church Yard on the north side of Snow Hill (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 245). Site now covered by Holborn Viaduct …
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9The Watch House — is a 1977 fiction book by Robert Westall. The main story is about a teenager called Anne, who is left to spend the summer with her mother s old nanny. While there she explores the watch house, writes a guidebook for the watch house and is haunted …
10Old Watch House, Bishopsgate — On the west side of Bishopsgate, south of St. Botolph s Bishopsgate Churchyard. Ye olde Watch House. A tablet affixed to the house records the fact that it was rebuilt 1771 and again 1912. Commemorates the site of the watch or guard… …
