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Dorrington Street, EC1N

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Place name This was originally called Dodington Street after Anne Dodington, wife of Robert Grenville, Lord Brooke, who owned a…

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Baldwin’s Gardens, EC1N

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Place Name Named after Elizabeth I’s gardener, Richard Baldwin or Baldwyn (born around 1561), who held property here fromĀ 1589 on…

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Brooke Street, EC1N

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Place Name Named after Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (October 3, 1554 – September 30, 1628), who bought the Earl of…

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Turnmill Street, EC1M

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PLACE NAME One of the oldest streets in London, mentioned in 1374 as Trilmullestrete, a century later as Tryllemylstrete and…

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Rutland Place, EC1M

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Place Name Following the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537, much of the land held by the Carthusian monks of…

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Greville Street, EC1M

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Place Name Named after Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (October 3, 1554 – September 30, 1628), who bought a property here…

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Greenhill Rents, EC1M

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Place Name Named after John Greenhill, former landlord of the Castle Tavern on Cowcross Street, who owned various plots around…

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Fox and Knot Street, EC1M

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Place Name This is approximately where Three Fox Court used to stand after the name of an inn that was…

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Cowcross Street, EC1M

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Place Name Literal. Surprisingly there was once a medieval cross here near its junction with St John Street and it…

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Clerkenwell Road, EC1M

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Place Name A relatively new road, it was created as part of a Victorian improvement scheme in 1878 by the…

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