Place Name Named after the Red Lion Inn that stood on the south side of the yard, in 1737 it…
Place Name Originally called Pissing Alley, this was most likely a public toilet from at least Georgian times but probably…
Place Name Holds the title of being the only road in the City of London, all the rest are streets,…
Place Name This was where the Bailiff of Egle (also spelt Ecle, Eycle, Eagle, or Aquila) in Lincolnshire, a high-level dignitary in the…
Place name There are two contenders after whom this road could be named, both extraordinary men in their own way.…
Place name This Farringdon road has undergone several name changes since it was first laid out. On Rocque’s map of…
Place Name After a new gate built here in first millennium. John Stow says that it was “latelier built than…
Place Name A road that has stayed pretty much in tact from when John Rocque drew up his map of…
Place Name There was a Barley Mow Tavern based at 50 Long Lane for more than 200 years, the first…
Place Name Probably named after James Braidwood (1800 – June 22, 1861) who founded the world’s first municipal fire service…