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Green Terrace, EC1R

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Place Name Named after John Grene (1627 – 1705), clerk to the New River Company in the 1600s and husband…

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Lloyd’s Row, EC1R

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Place Name Named after the Lloyd Baker family, either Thomas John (who died 1841) or his son Thomas Barwick Lloyd Baker…

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Garnault Mews, EC1R

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Place Name One of a number of nearby roads that are named after prominent figures in the New River Company,…

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Exmouth Market, EC1R

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Place Name Previously Exmouth Street. This commemorates Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (April 19, 1757 – January 23, 1833),…

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Crawford Passage, EC1R

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Place Name Named after Peter Crawford, the landlord of a former pub called the Pickled Egg which was based at…

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Corporation Row, EC1R

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Place Name Named after the former New Corporation Work House, built here in the mid-1660s, following the “Act for the…

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Chadwell Street, EC1R

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Place Name Named after Chadwell spring in Amwell, Hertfordshire, one of the sources of the nearby New River which brought…

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Catherine Griffiths Court, EC1R

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Place Name Remembering Catherine Griffiths (1885 – 1988), known as the last suffragette – when she died aged 103. She…

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Bowling Green Lane, EC1R

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Place Name Situated on the edge of the bustling City, Clerkenwell was a favourite place of recreation in the 16thCentury.…

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Baker’s Row, EC1R

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Place Name Like Baker’s Yard, named after Richard Baker, a carpenter from St Pancras who leased the land from a…

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