Place Name This previously unnamed cut-through into Bow Churchyard was named after the author John Milton (December 9, 1608 –…
Place name Named after one of the original outer defences, this road marks the route of the City’s original fortified…
Place Name Literally Hail Mary. According to John Stow in his Survey of London from 1598 it was so named…
Place Name Industrial heritage. Named after the printing industry which formerly flourished here. Publishing started in nearby Fleet Street around…
Place Name The name comes from a shortening of Popinjay Court, a reference to the parrot that features on the crest…
Place Name Laid out over a network of small alleys in 1870 and named after the nearby St Bride’s Church.…
Place Name Number 7 may have been the home of Dr Samuel Johnson between 1748 and 1759 where he compiled his famous A…
Place Name It is possible that this was named after a former inn called the Castle which was located here…
Place Name Owned by the church since the middle ages the property transferred from the abbots of Peterborough to the…
Place Name Named after Agas Haringe, a wealthy widow, who in 1513 left land, tenements and gardens between Fetter Lane…