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Clerkenwell Road, EC1R

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Place Name After a local well, the Clerks’ Well, which gives its name to the area. It was first mentioned…

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Coldbath Square, EC1R

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Place Name This area was known as Cold Bath or Coldbath Fields in the 18th and early 19th centuries, it…

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Hardwick Street, EC1R

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Place Name Named after the Lloyd-Baker family, extensive landowners in Clerkenwell by 1738. Thomas Lloyd Baker who died in 1841, of…

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Gloucester Way, EC1R

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Place Name Named after the county town of Thomas Lloyd Baker (died 1841), the local landowner who developed the streets…

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Ingle Mews, EC1R

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Place Name Inglebert Street and Ingle Mews are named after William Inglebert the visionary who in 1606 petitioned the Common…

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Meredith Street, EC1R

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Place Name Named after philanthropist John Meredith Esq a local landowner, alderman and a Master of the Worshipful Company of…

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Phoenix Place, EC1R

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Place Name Industrial heritage. By association with the old Phoenix Iron Foundry once on the corner of Mount Pleasant and…

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Vine Hill, EC1R

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Place Name Agricultural heritage. In medieval times London was known as a wine producing region. Holborn was mentioned for its…

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Sans Walk, EC1R

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Place Name A local family name, given in 1893 after Edward Sans, then the oldest member of the local parish vestry, a…

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Albemarle Way, EC1V

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Place Name Honours George Monck, or Monk (December 6, 1608 – January 3, 1701), the Duke of Albemarle, the man who…

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