Place Name Thomas Belsham (April 26, 1750 – November 11, 1829) was a Unitarian preacher at the Old Gravel Pit…
Place Name Named after John de Banbury who is recorded as owning a mansion and land in Hackney in the…
Place Name One of three roads named after influential treasurers of the Sir John Cass Foundation. The road was named after…
Place Name This leads to the Anglican church of St Barnabas, Homerton, which was consecrated on St Barnabas Day on…
Place Name Remembering the local Hackney company of Lewis Berger and Sons, paint and colour manufacturers. The family began leasing premises…
Place Name Named in 1875 after Sir Henry Rowe who was an English merchant and Lord Mayor of London in 1607. Sir Henry of…
Place Name A large house called Brooksby Villa stood North of the junction with Homerton Grove. Land in the area…
Place Name Named after Sir Crisp Gascoyne (1700 – December 28, 1761), a wealthy brewer who lived in Gravel Lane,…
Place Name One of three roads named after influential treasurers of the Sir John Cass Foundation, who continued the local…
Place Name The Amhurst or Amherst family, later Tyssen Amherst, were lords of the manor of Hackney, which they acquired…