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North Tenter Street, E1

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Place Name Previously called Tenter Street North. This is one of four streets, the others being East Tenter Street, South…

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Glamis Road, E1

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Place Name Previously called Fox Lane. It is named, like a number of roads around here after Claude Lyon-Bowes (July…

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Fournier Street, E1

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Place Name Previously called Church Street, it is named after George Fournier, whose family had been Huguenot refugees forced to flee…

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Gun Street, E1

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Place Name Previously part of the Tasel Close Artillery Yard which was here in the 16thCentury, on land that previously…

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John Fisher Street, E1

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Place Name John Fisher (circa October 19, 1469 – June 22, 1535) was an English Catholic bishop, cardinal, and theologian…

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James Voller Way, E1

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Place Name Thought to be named after the Reverend James Voller (1813 – 1901), a London-born minister who became a…

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Sandy’s Row, E1

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Place Name Named after a builder or property owner of this name, it was first recorded in its present name…

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Maria Terrace, E1

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Place Name Originally part of the Beaumount estate, it is said that a wealthy local brewer gave his daughters Maria,…

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Royal Mint Street, E1

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Place Name Previously called Rosemary Lane from the 17thCentury and before that in the medieval period as Hachestrate and Heggestrete,…

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Ratcliffe Lane, E1

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Place Name Named after the area which itself describes the gentle slope from the banks of the River Thames and…

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