Place Name A rather literal, if late, name as it comes from the skin and fur trade that was centred around…
Place Name After a palatial mansion called the Manor of the Rose originally built for the Lord Mayor Sir John Pountney…
Place Name Many believe that this is derived from the Latin word cloaca – which in turn gave us the…
Place Name Despite appearances to the contrary this is not named after a steelyard. The name is a corruption from…
Place Name Previously called Maidenhead Court, it is thought to have been renamed after a local landowner sometime around 1810.
Place Name Named after Joanna Cosyn who owned property here from the late 13thCentury, it was first recorded as Cosinelane…
Place Name A reference to the Hanseatic League, a collection of German merchants, whose medieval guildhall Guilda Teutonicorum (German merchants’…
Place Name Named after the warehouses of the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers that were previously here, although this alley only came…
Place Name First mentioned in 1316 as Fynamoureslane most likely after the owner’s surname. By the 17thCentury however it was variously…
Place Name A relatively new pathway constructed as part of the enhancements along the River Thames. It is named after…