Place Name Despite appearances to the contrary this is not named after a steelyard. The name is a corruption from…
Place Name Previously called Maidenhead Court, it is thought to have been renamed after a local landowner sometime around 1810.
Place Name Named after Joanna Cosyn who owned property here from the late 13thCentury, it was first recorded as Cosinelane…
Place Name A reference to the Hanseatic League, a collection of German merchants, whose medieval guildhall Guilda Teutonicorum (German merchants’…
Place Name Named after the warehouses of the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers that were previously here, although this alley only came…
Place Name First mentioned in 1316 as Fynamoureslane most likely after the owner’s surname. By the 17thCentury however it was variously…
Place Name A relatively new pathway constructed as part of the enhancements along the River Thames. It is named after…
Place Name Thought to be named after Elias Gofaire, an early 14thCentury property owner and merchant who on his death…
Place Name Named after the 13thCentury church of St Laurence Pountney, one of 34 medieval churches destroyed in the Great…
Place Name Named after the medieval inn here called the Olde Swanne, which was first mentioned in 1323 and again…