Place Name Named after the rood – or holy cross – set up in the churchyard at St Margaret Pattens…
Place Name This comes from the Middle English word meaning animals’ entrails, bowels, offal and guts which were carried down…
Place name Named after Sir John Philpot (1330 – May 25, 1384), a wealthy grocer who was Lord Mayor of…
Place Name This refers to the convent of nuns known in the middle ages as minchins or mynecen, this was…
Place Name There are several theories behind how this street got its name although all agree it was recorded as…
Place Name Named after the head office of Lloyd’s Registry of Shipping that was based at the junction with Fenchurch…
Place Name One potential clue to the meaning of the name comes from an early spelling as featured on Ogilby…
Place Name As the name suggests it was here that fishmongers were based and sold their wares. It follows the…
Place Name It is thought to mean a church on marshy land after a stream called the Lang, giving the…
Place Name This was already a thriving market – a chepe in Old English – by the time the Normans…