Place name This Farringdon road has undergone several name changes since it was first laid out. On Rocque’s map of…
Place Name After a new gate built here in first millennium. John Stow says that it was “latelier built than…
Place Name A road that has stayed pretty much in tact from when John Rocque drew up his map of…
Place Name There was a Barley Mow Tavern based at 50 Long Lane for more than 200 years, the first…
Place Name Probably named after James Braidwood (1800 – June 22, 1861) who founded the world’s first municipal fire service…
Place Name Directional, the road leading to Farringdon, it does not enter Farringdon Ward. The street takes its name from…
Place Name The name to this winding road may conjure up ideas of patriotic fervour but in fact comes from…
Place Name Unlike nearby Cock Street there is no question about how this street got its name. With the meat…
Place Name Recorded as Green Arbour in 1637, perhaps a little oasis of countryside in the busy City. It is…
Place Name Named after a public house that stood in Aldersgate Street until it was knocked down in 1879. It was…