Place Name There are two possible theories as to how this was named. The traditional one is that it was…
Place Name Previously called Fleece Lane and also Fleece Passage after an inn that was here until it burnt down…
Place Name Literally a Hill, the highest in the City, and one of the three oldest named streets in London. It…
Place Name Named after the Beehive Tavern which was here, oddly, in the poultry section of Leadenhall Market, until 1885…
Place Name Thought to be either from an inn of this name, or the sign of an ironmongers that was…
Place Name Named from the wool merchants and merchant bankers from Lombardy, in northern Italy, who traded and lent money…
Place name According to John Stow, the name was derived from a grass or herb market which also gave its…
Place Name This was previously named after a pub the Ship Tavern, at 27 Lime Street, which was first recorded here in…
Place Name Named after London’s first General Post Office – and later the Mail Coach Office – which stood here…
Place Name Named after the medieval St Nicholas Acons church, which was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. The church…