Place Name Directional, it is the road that leads to Farringdon. Named after Sir William de Farnedon or de Faringdon…
Place Name Named after the, now covered, River Fleet which flowed near here. Originally the name only referred to the…
Place Name Named as far back as 1615 in the parish register after one Thomas Bartlett (also spelled Bartlet), King’s printer…
Place Name Named after the Leaden Hall, a large manor house owned by Sir Hugh Neville in the 14thCentury, that…
Place Name A corruption of a family name Fink. It is either Aelfwin Fink, also spelt Ailwin Finnk, a moneychanger who…
Place Name There are two possible theories as to how this was named. The traditional one is that it was…
Place Name Previously called Fleece Lane and also Fleece Passage after an inn that was here until it burnt down…
Place Name Literally a Hill, the highest in the City, and one of the three oldest named streets in London. It…
Place Name Named after the Beehive Tavern which was here, oddly, in the poultry section of Leadenhall Market, until 1885…
Place Name Thought to be either from an inn of this name, or the sign of an ironmongers that was…