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Helmet Row, EC1V

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Place name Built on land left to the Ironmonger’s Company whose coat of arms features a helmet. In 1527 Thomas…

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Gee Street, EC1V

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Place name Named after Osgood Gee (1744 – 1823) who laid out the road along a former rope walk in…

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Dingley Place, EC1V

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Place name Charles James Dingley, who proposed a link road to reduce journey times between the new Pentonville Road and…

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Domingo Street, EC1V

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Place name Named after San Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic and one of the Caribbean’s oldest cities, which…

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Friend Street, EC1V

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Place Name Previously called Brewer Street North until it changed in 1936. Honouring philanthropist George Friend, a scarlet-dyer to the…

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Cyrus Street, EC1V

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Place Name Originally called King Street, the name changed to its present one in 1880, as part of a review…

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Agdon Street, EC1V

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Place name This has undergone several name changes, having previously been Woods Close at the time of Rocque’s 1746 map…

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Berry Street, EC1V

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Place Name This was Hooper Street at the end of the 18thCentury but, as Berry Place owes its present name…

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Pardon Street, EC1V

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Place Name From when this road was laid out, sometime around 1819 until 1936, it was known as Clark Street.…

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Brewhouse Yard, EC1V

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Place Name The first brewery opened on this spot in 1728, and was for a long time the site of…

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