Place Name Named after Thomas Fairchild (1667 – October 10, 1729), the Hoxton gardener whose work with Carl Linnæus helped establish…
Place Name At the end of the 18thCentury this was still largely undeveloped land, a pathway leading from Worship Street…
Place name From around 1792 this was Paradise Place until it adopted its present name in 1938. Like the adjoining…
Place Name Laid out in the latter half of the 18thCentury, this street commemorates the marriage of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz…
Place Name Named after Offspring Blackall, also spelt Blackhall, (1654 – November 29, 1716), the brilliant but controversial preacher who…
Place Name In 1692 Sir James Bateman (April 26, 1660 – November 10, 1718), merchant and MP, bought part of…
Place name Named after G and J Oliver, the former leesees who were featured on the rate books from 1842.…
Place Name Named after the Fortune Playhouse, a round wooden theatre modelled on William Shakespeare’s Globe in Southwark. It was…
Place Name Named after one Matthew Featherstone who leased Upper Moorfields, which is now Finsbury Square, and Bunhill Fields Burial…
Place name Named after a local carpenter Stephen Fann whose will in 1613 noted that he had property in the…