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Burdett Road, E3

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Place Name Angela Georgina Burdett-Couttss (April 21, 1814 – December 30, 1906), 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutt, was a philanthropist who descended from…

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Wentworth Mews, E3

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Place Name In 1550 Edward VI passed his newly acquired manor of Stepney to Thomas, Lord Wentworth (1501 – March…

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Morgan Street, E3

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Place Name Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar (April 10, 1792 – April 16, 1875), owned property around Bow.…

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Treby Street, E3

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Place Name In honour of Sir George Treby (1643 – 1700), a Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and…

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Tibbatts Road, E3

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Place Name Sometimes spelt Tibbatt’s Road but there has never been an apostrophe. Thought to have been named in 1878…

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Talwin Street, E3

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Place Name This is named in honour of Elizabeth Talwin, who in 1795 left £1,600 (worth roughly £2.2m today) in…

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Ropery Street, E3

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Place Name This is a revival of an older street name, recalling as it does the fact that this was…

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Roman Road, E3

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Place Name This follows the route of one of the first Roman roads to be laid out in Britain, leading…

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Parnell Road, E3

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Place Name The Reverend Richard Parnell of St Stephen’s Anglican Church who saw a rapid increase in his parish as…

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Maddams Street, E3

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Place Name Commemorates one of the area’s first borough councillors George Maddams, a Progressive candidate, who took his seat soon…

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