Place Name This is the first named street in the London A – Z. Named after the 18thCentury poet and…
Place Name In use from at least the 14thCentury, this was the crossing that carried the lane to Barking across…
Place Name Remembering corn merchant William Morley who lived at Green Street House – also known as Boleyn Castle –…
Place Name Commemorating Bradley Stone, a young boxer who died two days after he sustained injuries in a super bantamweight fight at…
Place Name Thought to be the shortest street name in the country. A hide or hyde was an old Anglo-Saxon…
Place Name The name Newham was established in 1965 when Greater London was created, representing a combination of East Ham…
Place Name Named after the 118 day Siege – or more likely the Relief – of Ladysmith, in South Africa,…
Place Name Sir Fulke Greville, later 1st Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court (October 3, 1554 – September 30, 1628), an…
Place Name Literal. As the name suggests this was hilly marshland which would have been unsuitable for building and was…
Place Name Local benefactor Samuel Robinson (1752 – 1833) built homes for “twelve widows of protestant dissenting ministers professing Calvinistic…