Place Name First recorded as Smethefeld in the 12thCentury when it was a large open area neighbouring Tower Hill, used…
Place Name Previously Denmark Street. The current name commemorates Augustus George Crowder, a member of the vestry of the Parish of St…
Place Name Previously called King Edward Street, the name commemorates haberdasher Thomas Clave from Wapping who left £50 to the parish…
Place Name From early on the City of London attracted talent from around the country, yet the Guilds set up…
Place Name Unsurprisingly there was brewery here. Pickard’s Brewery is named in John Lockie’s Topography of London published in 1810 but…
Place Name Named after Peter Bere, a local landowner, who came to wider attention when on July 23, 1794 a…
Place Name An old name possibly of Anglo-Saxon origin. A soke was a judicial area that granted certain rights and…
Place Name Named after the sign of a former galleried inn which was first mentioned in records by 1637, a…
Place Name It has nothing to do with the city of Cambridge as the original 1275 spelling shows Camprichtheheth which…
Place Name Previously called Crab Court and Carter Street, it became known as Clothier Street from 1906 after the second-hand clothes…