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Castle Yard, TW10

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Place Name Named after the Castle Hotel, originally on George Street, which was leased to a wealthy vintner called John Halford.…

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D’Arblay Street, W1F

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PLACE NAME Renamed in 1909 after the novelist Fanny Burney, also known as Madame d’Arblay (June 13, 1752 – January 6,…

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Cardigan Road, SW19

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Place Name Originally an extension of North Road. James Thomas Brudenell (October 16, 1797 – March 28, 1868) the 7th Earl…

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Cardigan Road, TW10

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Place Name James Thomas Brudenell (October 16, 1797 – March 28, 1868) the 7th Earl of Cardigan was, at the time that…

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Cambridge Circus, WC2H

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Place Name On February 26, 1887 the Duke of Cambridge formally opened the new development of Charing Cross Road which had…

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Cambridge Road, TW9

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Place Name Prince George (March 26, 1819 – March 17, 1904) was Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Tipperary, and Baron Culloden.…

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Broadhurst Close, TW10

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Place Name The land on which this street was built was given to the Vestry, a prototype parish council, by…

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Beatrice Place, SW19

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Place Name Princess Beatrice (April 14, 1857 – October 26, 1944), was the youngest of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s children and…

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Beatrice Place, W8

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Place Name Laid out over the extensive St Mary Abbotts Workhouse, which later became the Kensington Institution and Kensington Infirmary,…

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Beatrice Court, IG9

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Place Name This was laid out over the site of the former site of what is thought to have been Buckhurst…

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