Place Name Directional, the road leading to Farringdon, it does not enter Farringdon Ward. The street takes its name from…
Place Name The name to this winding road may conjure up ideas of patriotic fervour but in fact comes from…
Place Name Unlike nearby Cock Street there is no question about how this street got its name. With the meat…
Place Name Recorded as Green Arbour in 1637, perhaps a little oasis of countryside in the busy City. It is…
Place Name Named after a public house that stood in Aldersgate Street until it was knocked down in 1879. It was…
Place Name This was named in 1871 after Hayne’s timber merchants and carpenters, specialists in mahogany. Several generations of the…
Place Name As with many of the streets running from Cheapside, this name reveals a long forgotten mercantile past. For…
Place Name Before 1881 this was called Charterhouse Lane. Originally Charterhouse comes from an Anglicisation of Chartreuse, from the Grande Chartreuse,…
Place Name This previously unnamed passage is named after the controversial widow of Edward II who was buried at Greyfriars…
Place Name Descriptive. A long road for a medieval city, it was recorded as Long Lane in 1530 and Longlane…