Place Name Laid out in the 9thCentury to lead up from the river and hythe – an Old English word meaning…
Place Name Named in the 16thCentury after the 13thCentury St Pancras Soper Lane, the church dedicated to St Pancras which…
Place Name Named after the earls of Oxford who held a 12thCentury property here, the former home of London’s first…
Place Name In honour of King William IV (August 21, 1765 – June 20, 1837) who was the reigning monarch when…
Place name Named after the Worshipful Company of Salters, founded in 1394, who had their hall here from 1641. Salters…
Place Name Not named after the Dorset market town but a rather more earthy origin. The clue comes in the…
Place Name The Walbrook stream flows near here, now underground, running between Ludgate Hill and Cornhill. It is thought to…
Place Name This road used to lead to the medieval church of St Benet Sherehog dedicated to St Osyth, also…
Place Name This is either a reference to the makers of rosaries, known as Pater Nosters (from the Latin for…
Place Name This street’s name goes back to the middle ages and means the street of the candlemakers, an important…