PLACE NAME Literal. So-named in 1861 by St Luke’s Vestry probably because it was in the middle of St Luke’s…
Place name This street was built about 1811 on land owned by St Bartholomew the Hospital, it is named in…
Place Name Named after the Reverend Robert Dallington (1561 – 1637), Master of Charterhouse School between 1624 and 1637 and…
Place Name A road that has stayed pretty much in tact from when John Roque drew up his map of…
Place name Directional, the road leading to Farringdon, it does not enter Farringdon Ward. The street takes its name from…
Place Name Named after the monks who lived at Charterhouse, itself an Anglicisation of Chartreuse, from the Grande Chartreuse, the head…
Place name Riverside road between Westminster and Blackfriars, constructed to the designs of engineer Sir Peter Bazalgette between 1864 and…
Place Name Named after the, now covered, River Fleet which flowed near here. Originally the name only referred to the…
Place Name Named from a monastery of Carmelites (the Friars of Our Lady of Mount Carmel), otherwise known, from their…
Place Name It has been suggested that it was named after flowers which used to grow here. But this is now…