Place Name Previously Baltic Street. This street and others located nearby were built by a timber merchant Thomas Hacker who in…
Place Name This is an old street name, recorded as Chysel Strate as early as 1217 and as Cheselstrete by 1458. There…
Place name Until 1813 this was called Great Swordbearers’ Alley. It was changed to commemorate Thomas Lamb overseer of the…
Place Name Previously Grub Street. Despite the street’s long-standing literary connections it was not renamed after the poet rather a…
Place Name Named after the former City gate that stood here but the origins of how the entrance got its…
Place Name The Banners were a local family of tradespeople who are mentioned as living and owning property in the…
Place Name Named after the thrice married Alice Owen (1547 – October 26, 1613) whose generosity to the poor of Clerkenwell…
Place Name Charles Compton, 1st Marquess of Northampton, owned much of the land around Clerkenwell, and when it was developed…
Place Name Agricultural heritage, renamed in 1908 to remember Mallow Field, one of the former fields that made up Finsbury Manor…
Place Name Originally Smith Street, it was changed before the Second World War to commemorate 17thCentury clock and watchmaker Thomas…