Place Name Commemorates Joseph Beck (1829 – 1891), London County Councillor for North Hackney from 1889. He is celebrated along…
Place Name Site of a house called Bohemia Palace 1578 – 1796, built by a London merchant. It is said…
Place Name Named in 1874, in honour of Robert Brett (1808 – 1874), a wealthy doctor and churchman. Brett was…
Place Name Commemorates Cecilia Heron (1507 – c1535), the third and youngest daughter of Sir Thomas More who lived in Shacklewell…
Place Name Named after Dr Robert Ainsworth (1660 – April 4, 1743), a nonconformist schoolmaster, antiquarian and lexicographer originally from…
Place Name Originally called Creeksmouth Lane it was renamed to mark King Edward VII’s coronation on August 9, 1902. Edward…
Place Name Named after Martha, Mary, and Elizabeth Swinnerton, granddaughters of Charles Milborne, a Hackney landowner who bequeathed them the Marsh Hill…
Place Name Named after Owen Rowe, a colonel in the London militia during the English Civil War and one of…
Place Name Previously called Lammas Road, it may have changed because of confusion with Lammas Road in neighbouring E10. Long…
Place Name A D Mills in A Dictionary of London Place Name says that the origins of the name Homerton…