Place Name In 1692 Sir James Bateman (April 26, 1660 – November 10, 1718), merchant and MP, bought part of…
Place name Named after G and J Oliver, the former leesees who were featured on the rate books from 1842.…
Place Name Named after the Fortune Playhouse, a round wooden theatre modelled on William Shakespeare’s Globe in Southwark. It was…
Place Name Named after one Matthew Featherstone who leased Upper Moorfields, which is now Finsbury Square, and Bunhill Fields Burial…
Place name Named after a local carpenter Stephen Fann whose will in 1613 noted that he had property in the…
Place Name Named after the Lincolnshire town that was the birthplace of brothers John and Charles Wesley, it has given its name…
Place name This has undergone many name changes in the past few centuries. It was originally a particularly wide bend…
Place Name Formerly North Street, although the area has undergone much redevelopment. It was renamed in the 1830s after John…
Place name Named after the Chequers Inn whose sign was a chequerboard, which was recorded here in 1665. In the…
Place Name Originally Charles Street. This was laid out over the former gardens of the Earl of Bridgewater’s residence, Bridgewater House,…