Place Name Named after the Beehive Tavern which was here, oddly, in the poultry section of Leadenhall Market, until 1885…
Place Name Thought to be either from an inn of this name, or the sign of an ironmongers that was…
Place Name Named from the wool merchants and merchant bankers from Lombardy, in northern Italy, who traded and lent money…
Place name According to John Stow, the name was derived from a grass or herb market which also gave its…
Place Name This was previously named after a pub the Ship Tavern, at 27 Lime Street, which was first recorded here in…
Place Name Named after London’s first General Post Office – and later the Mail Coach Office – which stood here…
Place Name Named after the medieval St Nicholas Acons church, which was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. The church…
Place Name As acts of royal sycophancy go, this proved a little premature. It was laid out and named following…
Place Name Named after a former inn of this name or a corruption of a tavern called the Tabard. A…
Place Name Named after Richard Whittington (circa 1354 – 1423), perhaps the most famous Lord Mayor of London in its…