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Charterhouse Mews, EC1M

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Place Name Charterhouse comes from an Anglicisation of Chartreuse, from the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the Carthusians in Burgundy,…

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Charterhouse Square, EC1M

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Place Name Charterhouse comes from an Anglicisation of Chartreuse, from the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the Carthusians in Burgundy,…

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Charterhouse Street, EC1M

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Place Name Charterhouse comes from an Anglicisation of Chartreuse, from the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the Carthusians in Burgundy,…

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Charterhouse Buildings, EC1M

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Place Name Charterhouse comes from an Anglicisation of Chartreuse, from the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the Carthusians in Burgundy,…

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Homerton Road, E9

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Place Name This was being laid out across Hackney Marsh at the turn of the 20thCentury linking Stratford with Hackney…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Hackney, King's Park, streets named after women

Fairways, CR8

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Place Name This is one of a small cluster of streets in the area named after golfing terms, the others…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Croydon, Kenley, streets named after sports connections

Pear Road, E11

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Place Name An area much redeveloped throughout the 20thCentury. This is one of a cluster of streets redeveloped by the Waltham…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: streets named after food, Waltham Forest, Waltham Forest Housing Action Trust

Peach Grove, E11

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Place Name An area much redeveloped throughout the 20thCentury. This is one of a cluster of streets redeveloped by the Waltham…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: streets named after food, Waltham Forest, Waltham Forest Housing Action Trust

Ludgate Circus, EC4M

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Place Name Constructed between 1864 and 1875 at the junction of Legate Hill and Fleet Street. The former city gate…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: City of London, Farringdon Ward Without, streets named after legends

Emma Street, E2

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Place Name Named after members of the the Pritchard family. Andrew Pritchard, a “tilemaker of Hackney Road”, who in 1789…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Bethnal Green, Cambridge Heath, St Peter's, streets named after women, Tower Hamlets

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