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Epworth Street, EC1Y

19 March 2020 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Named after the Lincolnshire town that was the birthplace of brothers John and Charles Wesley, it has given its name…

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Crescent Row, EC1Y

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Place name This has undergone many name changes in the past few centuries. It was originally a particularly wide bend…

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Cowper Street, EC1Y

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Place Name Formerly North Street, although the area has undergone much redevelopment. It was renamed in the 1830s after John…

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Chequer Street, EC1Y

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Place name Named after the Chequers Inn whose sign was a chequerboard, which was recorded here in 1665. In the…

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Viscount Street, EC1Y

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Place Name Originally Charles Street. This was laid out over the former gardens of the Earl of Bridgewater’s residence, Bridgewater House,…

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Baltic Street East, EC1Y

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Place Name Previously Baltic Street. This street and others located nearby were built by a timber merchant Thomas Hacker who in…

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Chiswell Street, EC1Y

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Place Name This is an old street name, recorded as Chysel Strate as early as 1217 and as Cheselstrete by 1458. There…

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Lamb’s Passage, EC1Y

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Place name Until 1813 this was called Great Swordbearers’ Alley. It was changed to commemorate Thomas Lamb overseer of the…

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Milton Street, EC1Y

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Place Name Previously Grub Street. Despite the street’s long-standing literary connections it was not renamed after the poet rather a…

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Cripplegate Street, EC1Y

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Place Name Named after the former City gate that stood here but the origins of how the entrance got its…

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