Place Name Literal. This was once part of the bishops of Ely’s famous and extensive gardens, famous for their roses…
Place Name A corruption, for it is named after the lords Grey of Wilton. In 1294 Reginald de Grey (c.…
Place Name It takes its name from Sir Richard Furnival, who possessed two Messuages and 13 shops here during the…
Place Name Named after the bishops of Ely. In 1290 John de Kirkeby, the incumbent bishop, bequeathed his Holborn property,…
Place Name Land here was given to the Worshipful Company of Dyers in 1551 by Henry West for the building of…
Place name This was originally called Dodington Street after Anne Dodington, wife of Robert Grenville, Lord Brooke, who owned a…
Place Name Named after Elizabeth I’s gardener, Richard Baldwin or Baldwyn (born around 1561), who held property here from 1589 on…
Place Name Named after Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (October 3, 1554 – September 30, 1628), who bought the Earl of…
PLACE NAME One of the oldest streets in London, mentioned in 1374 as Trilmullestrete, a century later as Tryllemylstrete and…
Place Name Following the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537, much of the land held by the Carthusian monks of…