Bridewell

'From St. Bride's Well, a holy well in London, near which Henry VIII had a 'lodging', given by Edward VI for a hospital, afterwards converted into a house of correction.' [from the O.E.D.]

By association, 'bridewell' came to be a general term for any house of correction for prisoners; a place of forced labour; a gaol, prison. As, for example, in Colse's poem of 1596, Penelope's Complaint:

"Thy giggish tricks, thy queanish trade,

A thousand Bridwel birds hath made."

Most towns had a bridewell: some, like Newport Pagnell, even had two.

In much the same way, 'Tyburn' was the place of execution for Middlesex prisoners; situated at the junction of the present-day Oxford Street, Bayswater Road and Edgeware Road, but in open land some distance from the city when it was first established.

By allusion, however, and presumably because its sheer traffic of trade made it a byword, 'Tyburn' came to be synonymous with 'the gallows.' Therefore: Tyburn blossom, Tyburn check, Tyburn coach, Tyburn collop, Tyburn face, Tyburn jig, Tyburn piccadill, Tyburn saint, Tyburn stretch, Tyburn string, Tyburn tie, Tyburn tiffany, Tyburn ticket, Tyburn tippet, Tyburn tree, Tyburn tribe, Tyburn wright.

And hence also, York's 'Tyburn' - first a gibbet, later a gallows - where Dick Turpin was hanged.