Place Name An English corruption of Ralph Montagu (December 24, 1638 – March 9, 1709) who owned a mansion here. He was made Master…
Place Name This 17thCentury street was originally called New Street, but it was renamed in 1890 to avoid confusion with…
Place Name This was, up until at least 1746, Middlesex Court and is thought to have been where Middlesex House…
Place Name A confusing network of ancient winding streets and irregular combination of squares that were once the enclosed precinct…
Place Name First recorded sometime around 1145 as Smethefelda it derives from the Old English words smēthe and feld literally a…
Place Name Recorded as Gyltesporestrete or Gylspurstreate in the mid-16thCentury, this is thought to be the site where spurriers, the…
Place name As the name suggests. It was here in medieval times that merchants, from all over the country and abroad,…
Place name Being so close to Smithfield meat market it would be easy to assume that this could be named…
Place Name Formerly Snore Hylle at the time of Henry III and later Snowrehille in the 16thCentury, the exact meaning…
Place Name Named for Edward VI (October 12, 1537 – July 6, 1553), although this particular honour came long after…