Place Name The origin is uncertain but is generally thought to be named after a moat that was dug along…
Place Name A corruption of Christ Church, which was the church of the former Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate. Gillian Bebbington in…
Place Name Recalling the Abbots of Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk who were given a property here sometime before 1160,…
Place Name According to John Stow it is a corruption of Burie’s Marks, which was the name of a mansion…
Place Name Laid out over the former Man in the Moon Yard which led onto Artillery Court, as featured on…
Place Name Named after the Elizabethan poet Nicholas Breton (1545 – 1626) whose name was variously spelt Breton, Britton and Brittaine,…
Place Name Named after Oliver Cromwell (April 15, 1599 – September 3, 1658), the general who led Parliament’s armies against Charles…
Place Name In 1285 it was referred to as Bechestrete and a few years later as Bechelane in 1333. It is thought…
Place Name Named after the adjacent Roman bastion ruins, the bastion projecting out of the London Wall which was built…
Place Name Before 1885 it was known as Princes Street. But was named after John Milton’s patron the Earl of…