Place Name The Worshipful Company of Vintners’ Hall is adjacent. Wine merchants from France settled near Queenhithe in the 10thCentury and…
Place Name Originally from Wrexham, north Wales, Robert Waithman (1764 – February 6, 1833) came to London to work in for…
Place Name This was the site of the Royal Wardrobe, a house bought by Edward III in 1359, to store…
Place Name This originally led to a wharf which is recorded in 1755 and was possibly named after a former…
Place Name Named after the Church of All Hallows the Great, which had various suffixes in its time including …at…
Place Name A rather literal, if late, name as it comes from the skin and fur trade that was centred around…
Place Name After a palatial mansion called the Manor of the Rose originally built for the Lord Mayor Sir John Pountney…
Place Name Many believe that this is derived from the Latin word cloaca – which in turn gave us the…
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.