Place Name Not named after the Dorset market town but a rather more earthy origin. The clue comes in the…
Place Name The Walbrook stream flows near here, now underground, running between Ludgate Hill and Cornhill. It is thought to…
Place Name This road used to lead to the medieval church of St Benet Sherehog dedicated to St Osyth, also…
Place Name This is either a reference to the makers of rosaries, known as Pater Nosters (from the Latin for…
Place Name This street’s name goes back to the middle ages and means the street of the candlemakers, an important…
Place Name Previously called St Martin’s Court, from the 1690s. This street name only goes back to 1993 and commemorates…
Place Name The former city gate of this name stood here, it derives from an Old English term ludgeat for a…
Place Name This street was first recorded as Fridaiestraite or Fridesistrate in the 12thCentury. By the following century it was…
Place Name Named after the adjacent 11thCentury St Mary-le-Bow church, which gets its name from the arches in its Norman…
Place Name The origin of this name is uncertain but one theory suggests it is close to where pilgrims heading…