Place Name First recorded as Artyllerye lane in 1600, this street originally led to Tasel Close Artillery Yard, a walled…
Place Name An 18thCentury survivor, this was where willow trees grew in the marshy fields outside the City. Willow Walk,…
Place Name In 1567 this was a road which ran alongside a meadow that was home to three windmills and…
Place Name Named after Sir Paul Pindar (1565 – 1650), a merchant and the Ambassador of King James I of…
Place Name Known as Hill Street from 1790. Renamed in 1937 after nearby Bunhill Fields, part of Finsbury Manor in…
Place Name Named after a tavern that was built in the late 16thCentury/early 17thCentury on the site of the former…
Place Name Sheila Fairfield in The Streets of London suggests that “this is possibly a corruption of St John, the…
Place Name Built in 1875 as part of a through route for traffic from North into East London which was…
Place Name This name originally only applied to the eastern section from Tabernacle Street (which in the late 18thCentury was…
Place Name Before 1879 this was Finsbury Place. This was originally a promenade laid out over the marshy Moorfields just…