Place Name Directional, the road leading from Forest Hill to Honor Oak. There was indeed an oak tree, on One…
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Place Name Originally Dirty Lane and later Charles Street. Dr Thomas Augustine Arne (March 12, 1710 – March 5, 1778), was…
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Place Name The name suggests it was connected with a water channel but in fact it comes from an innkeeper…
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Place name Descriptive. Laid out with a slight curve between 1633 and 1677. As John Strype explained in 1740: “So called…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. This was originally a field owned by Westminster Abbey but had, at the time of development,…
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Place Name Previously Chapel Alley. Sir William Slingsby (29 January 1563 – August 1634), was an adventurer and property speculator.…
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Place Name This ancient path was once a trackway leading from the City, where it ran through Cripplegate, Aldersgate and…
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Place Name Previously called Little Hart Street (from Conduit Court to James Street) and Great Hart Street (from James Street…
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Place Name Previously Vernon Street and later Upper Vernon Street. Arthur Robert Prideaux (1857 – May 9, 1932) was a director…
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Place Name Formerly East Street, by association with New North Street. As a young man of humble origins from Bedford, William…
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