Place Name Named after the adjacent 11thCentury St Mary-le-Bow church, which gets its name from the arches in its Norman…
Place Name The origin of this name is uncertain but one theory suggests it is close to where pilgrims heading…
Place Name Industrial Heritage. It was here that medieval producers of distaffs sold their products, the distaff being a cleft…
Place Name Despite its close proximity to St Paul’s Cathedral the origins of this street name do not lie with…
Place Name Named after the Neville family, the earls of Warwick, who owned a house near here in the 1400s. The…
Place Name This should not be confused with the ancient Roman superhighway that ran from Dover, in Kent, to Wroxeter,…
Place Name Named after the medieval lime burning trade formerly located here on the outside of the City wall. The…
Place Name This previously unnamed cut-through into Bow Churchyard was named after the author John Milton (December 9, 1608 –…
Place name Named after one of the original outer defences, this road marks the route of the City’s original fortified…
Place Name Literally Hail Mary. According to John Stow in his Survey of London from 1598 it was so named…