Place Name From early on the City of London attracted talent from around the country, yet the Guilds set up…
Place Name Unsurprisingly there was brewery here. Pickard’s Brewery is named in John Lockie’s Topography of London published in 1810 but…
Place Name Named after Peter Bere, a local landowner, who came to wider attention when on July 23, 1794 a…
Place Name An old name possibly of Anglo-Saxon origin. A soke was a judicial area that granted certain rights and…
Place Name Named after the sign of a former galleried inn which was first mentioned in records by 1637, a…
Place Name It has nothing to do with the city of Cambridge as the original 1275 spelling shows Camprichtheheth which…
Place Name Previously called Crab Court and Carter Street, it became known as Clothier Street from 1906 after the second-hand clothes…
Place Name Thought to be named after a large gate that formerly stood on this street. Referenced as Whitegate Alley…
Place Name The origin of the name has been lost in time but there are several possible attributions. It is…
Place Name Restoring the memory of John Strype (November 1, 1643 – December 11, 1737), who was born in Houndsditch.…