Place Name Laid out in 1792, Hackney Terrace was renamed Cassland Road in 1845, after local resident and wealthy merchant Sir…
Place name Named after suffragist Dr Ethel Bentham (January 5, 1861 – January 19 1931), the MP for Islington East…
Place Name Named in honour of Dr George Birkbeck (1776 – 1841), a physician and a pioneer of adult education…
Place Name First recorded in 1294 as Derleston, derived from Dëoriäf’s tūn or farmstead, although Sheila Fairfield in The Streets…
Place Name This was originally a hamlet on the Hackney – Bethnal Green border and indeed means a boundary by…
Place Name Referencing Tottenham meaning Totta’s village which was written down as Toteham in 1086 and Totenham in 1189. The…
Place Name Directional. John Field in Place-Names of Greater London gives two possible interpretations of the name Haggerston, the first,…
Place Name Named in honour of John André (May 2, 1750 – October 2, 1780), British Army Major and head of…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. Long before development this was all agricultural land, the name of this Hackney street preserves the…
Place Name Thought to mean a watering place where animals were tethered – hence shackle and well – but it…