Place Name Like nearby Pollard Row, it is named after the fact that it was lined with pollarded trees, the…
Place Name This road once marked the eastern edge of Bethnal Green village. The name is a corruption of Rushy…
Place Name Previously called Willow Walk it was renamed in 1905 to revive the name of a 16thCentury landowner.
Place Name Thought to be named after Joseph F Padbury who served as Catholic priest of St Mary’s and St…
Place Name Named after Thomas Talbot Gorsuch, surgeon and local benefactor, who in 1820 left £9 per year for the…
Place Name This road leads to the former church of Saint James the Great, on Bethnal Green Road. St James’s,…
Place Name Previously called Ann’s Place, it is named after the Pritchard family. Andrew Pritchard, a “tilemaker of Hackney Road”…
Place Name Hows Street is named after William Arnold Hadden Hows, a pawnbroker who was one of Shoreditch’s first representatives…
Place Name One of the very many London streets commemorating the heroic victor at the Battle of Trafalgar. This was…
Place Name Named after the French seaport, La Rochelle, in the Bay of Biscay, which had close links to the Huguenot community.…