Place Name Named after Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London between 1550 – 1553. The Bishops of London owned the local…
Place Name Descriptive. These originally formed part of the landholding of the Priory at Clerkenwell. But some 60 acres of…
Place Name Previously called John Street. Dunn’s Cottages stood here, probably built by a builder called Dunn who was active…
Place Name Named after the Rhodes family’s Lamb Farm Estate, which was originally purchased by Samuel Rhodes I in 1788-9. Large-scale…
Place Name Development of the area began in 1821 when Lamb Farm began to be laid out for streets. While…
Place Name Named in 1883 to commemorate Arthur Dericote, a prominent Hackney resident, who died on November 12, 1562. Despite…
Place Name Named after John Hillman who served on Metropolitan Borough Council of Hackney from before 1912. He was chairman of…
Place Name Built on the estate of Sir William Fowle Middleton (August 19, 1784 – May 2, 1860), 2nd Baronet…
Place Name Commemorating the naval battle of Navarino which was fought on October 20, 1827, during the Greek War of Independence…
Place Name Commemorates Stamp Brooksbank (1694 – May 25, 1756), an MP and Governor of the Bank of England who…