Place Name Directional, this road leads to Hackney. The name Hackney is thought to come from Haca’s Island, meaning dry…
Place Name Commemorates the French theologian, John Calvin (July 10, 1509 – May 27, 1564), who led the Protestant Reformation in…
Place Name One of a number of streets named after a local family who farmed the land here from the mid-16thCentury,…
Place Name This used to be an old path that led East from Houndsditch. The name is descriptive, after the nature…
Place Name This street led to Haydon Square and is a corruption of John Heydon’s surname. Captain Heydon was Master of…
Place Name Previously called Tenter Street North. This is one of four streets, the others being East Tenter Street, South…
Place Name Previously called Fox Lane. It is named, like a number of roads around here after Claude Lyon-Bowes (July…
Place Name Previously called Church Street, it is named after George Fournier, whose family had been Huguenot refugees forced to flee…
Place Name Previously part of the Tasel Close Artillery Yard which was here in the 16thCentury, on land that previously…
Place Name John Fisher (circa October 19, 1469 – June 22, 1535) was an English Catholic bishop, cardinal, and theologian…