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Albuhera Close, EN2

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Place Name Military heritage: Commemorating the Battle of Albuera (May 16, 1811) during the Peninsular War in which the British, Spanish…

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Baird Street, EC1Y

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Place namE In the 17th and 18th centuries this area was packed with small courts, slum alleys and dilapidated tenements,…

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Salisbury Square, EC4Y

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Place name Salisbury Square and Court mark the site of the medieval palace of the Bishops of Salisbury who owned…

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Arlington Way, EC1R

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Place name Named after Sir Henry Bennet (January 30, 1618 – July 28, 1685), a loyal supporter and member of…

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Back Hill, EC1R

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Place Name Literal, as it lies off or to the back of a main road. The prefix Back was frequently…

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Clerkenwell Road, EC1R

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Place Name After a local well, the Clerks’ Well, which gives its name to the area. It was first mentioned…

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Coldbath Square, EC1R

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Place Name This area was known as Cold Bath or Coldbath Fields in the 18th and early 19th centuries, it…

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Hardwick Street, EC1R

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Place Name Named after the Lloyd-Baker family, extensive landowners in Clerkenwell by 1738. Thomas Lloyd Baker who died in 1841, of…

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Gloucester Way, EC1R

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Place Name Named after the county town of Thomas Lloyd Baker (died 1841), the local landowner who developed the streets…

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Ingle Mews, EC1R

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Place Name Inglebert Street and Ingle Mews are named after William Inglebert the visionary who in 1606 petitioned the Common…

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