Place Name Named after the Elizabethan poet Nicholas Breton (1545 – 1626) whose name was variously spelt Breton, Britton and Brittaine,…
Place Name Named after Oliver Cromwell (April 15, 1599 – September 3, 1658), the general who led Parliament’s armies against Charles…
Place Name In 1285 it was referred to as Bechestrete and a few years later as Bechelane in 1333. It is thought…
Place Name Named after the adjacent Roman bastion ruins, the bastion projecting out of the London Wall which was built…
Place Name Before 1885 it was known as Princes Street. But was named after John Milton’s patron the Earl of…
Place Name Named after its location in front of the City walls it was first recorded in the 14thCentury as…
Place Name Named after the Elizabethan-era explorer Sir Martin Frobisher (1535 – November 22, 1594), an eminent mariner who made…
Place Name Named after the church dedicated to the Saxon-era Archbishop of Canterbury who was killed in 1012 by the…
Place Name Named after Richard Lambert Jones (1783 – August 16, 1863), the energetic Victorian councillor who was behind or involved…
Place Name Named after the marshy moorlands, the Moor Fields, that were here on the edge of the City and…