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Glasshouse Fields, E1W

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Place Name Site of a former glassworks. The industry remained in the area until the 1960s. Glassworks tended to be…

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Elf Row, E1W

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Place Name Once the far more prosaically named Elm Row. The minor name change may have been something of a…

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East Smithfield, E1W

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Place Name First recorded as Smethefeld in the 12thCentury when it was a large open area neighbouring Tower Hill, used…

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Crowder Street, E1W

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Place Name Previously Denmark Street. The current name commemorates Augustus George Crowder, a member of the vestry of the Parish of St…

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Clave Street, E1W

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Place Name Previously called King Edward Street, the name commemorates haberdasher Thomas Clave from Wapping who left £50 to the parish…

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Butcher Row, E1W

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Place Name From early on the City of London attracted talent from around the country, yet the Guilds set up…

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Brewhouse Lane, E1W

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Place Name Unsurprisingly there was brewery here. Pickard’s Brewery is named in John Lockie’s Topography of London published in 1810 but…

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Bere Street, E1W

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Place Name Named after Peter Bere, a local landowner, who came to wider attention when on July 23, 1794 a…

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Portsoken Street, E1

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Place Name An old name possibly of Anglo-Saxon origin. A soke was a judicial area that granted certain rights and…

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Catherine Wheel Alley, E1

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Place Name Named after the sign of a former galleried inn which was first mentioned in records by 1637, a…

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