Place Name Known as Hill Street from 1790. Renamed in 1937 after nearby Bunhill Fields, part of Finsbury Manor in…
Place Name Named after a tavern that was built in the late 16thCentury/early 17thCentury on the site of the former…
Place Name Sheila Fairfield in The Streets of London suggests that “this is possibly a corruption of St John, the…
Place Name Built in 1875 as part of a through route for traffic from North into East London which was…
Place Name This name originally only applied to the eastern section from Tabernacle Street (which in the late 18thCentury was…
Place Name Before 1879 this was Finsbury Place. This was originally a promenade laid out over the marshy Moorfields just…
Place Name Named after Thomas Fairchild (1667 – October 10, 1729), the Hoxton gardener whose work with Carl Linnæus helped establish…
Place Name At the end of the 18thCentury this was still largely undeveloped land, a pathway leading from Worship Street…
Place name From around 1792 this was Paradise Place until it adopted its present name in 1938. Like the adjoining…
Place Name Laid out in the latter half of the 18thCentury, this street commemorates the marriage of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz…