Place Name This was named in 1871 after Hayne’s timber merchants and carpenters, specialists in mahogany. Several generations of the…
Place Name As with many of the streets running from Cheapside, this name reveals a long forgotten mercantile past. For…
Place Name Before 1881 this was called Charterhouse Lane. Originally Charterhouse comes from an Anglicisation of Chartreuse, from the Grande Chartreuse,…
Place Name This previously unnamed passage is named after the controversial widow of Edward II who was buried at Greyfriars…
Place Name Descriptive. A long road for a medieval city, it was recorded as Long Lane in 1530 and Longlane…
Place Name An English corruption of Ralph Montagu (December 24, 1638 – March 9, 1709) who owned a mansion here. He was made Master…
Place Name This 17thCentury street was originally called New Street, but it was renamed in 1890 to avoid confusion with…
Place Name This was, up until at least 1746, Middlesex Court and is thought to have been where Middlesex House…
Place Name A confusing network of ancient winding streets and irregular combination of squares that were once the enclosed precinct…
Place Name First recorded sometime around 1145 as Smethefelda it derives from the Old English words smēthe and feld literally a…