Place Name Named in honour of Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (April 21, 1814 – December 30, 1906), a…
Place Name Previously called Henrietta Street. It was renamed after antiquarian Henry Allgood, author of A History of Bethnal Green, From…
Place Name A reference to the nearby area of Shacklewell, which is thought to mean a well where animals were…
Place name Named after Michael Godfrey (February 22, 1658 – July 17, 1695), the first Deputy Governor of the Bank…
Place Name Named after Henry of Navarre (December 13, 1553 – May 14, 1610), later King Henry IV of France from…
Place Name Named after Sir (Robert) Arthur Arnold (May 28, 1833 – May 20, 1902), who was elected onto the…
Place Name Until at least Elizabethan times this road was known as Theven Lane, on account of the criminal underworld…
Place Name Named after Edmund Bonner (circa 1500 – September 5, 1569), the twice ordained Roman Catholic Bishop of London.…
Place Name Part of St Katherine’s and Wapping Docks, it was so-named in the 17thCentury after the valuable spice that…
Place Name Named after John Smeaton (January 16, 1806 – October 31, 1842), civil engineer to the London Dock Company.…