Place Name Honouring Bernard Mandeville (November 15, 1670 – January 21, 1733), an Anglo-Dutch philosopher, political economist and satirist who lived…
Place Name Named after the East Sussex village of Newick, near Haywards Heath, which had connections with the Powell family, Hackney…
Place Name A reference to the local landscape, downs being hills, as this passes Hackney Downs, the former common land…
Place Name Named after the Powell family who were first recorded as Hackney landowners in 1745. In 1840 the Reverend Baden…
Place Name Formerly the site of The Mothers’ Hospital set up by the Salvation Army. This large maternity hospital, was previously…
Place Name One of several roads in the area that are named after connections to the Powell family who were…
Place Name The Reverend Algernon George Lawley (December 15, 1857 – June 14, 1931), who held the title 5th Baron…
Place Name Named after the Duke of Clarence pub, which itself was named in honour of George III’s third son…
Place Name Named after the long-serving former vicar of Hackney Parish, the Reverend Thomas Cornwaite, who died in 1799. He…
Place Name Previously called Pratt’s Lane and before that Cobb’s Lane, but renamed Glyn Road in 1881. It was laid…