Place Name Named after Agas Haringe, a wealthy widow, who in 1513 left land, tenements and gardens between Fetter Lane…
Place Name Descriptive and a joke name for this is a dead-end as it originally led from Snow Hill down…
Place Name Named after the masonry works that took place here, probably from stone transported by barge to this point…
Place Name Named sometime around 1810 after a local 18thCentury property owner of this name or a corruption of Greystock;…
Place Name A very new square, it didn’t exist until 1989. It was laid out over the former Gunpowder Alley,…
Place Name Named after the adjoining tavern, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, which is still there today and claims to be…
Place Name Directional, it is the road that leads to Farringdon. Named after Sir William de Farnedon or de Faringdon…
Place Name Named after the, now covered, River Fleet which flowed near here. Originally the name only referred to the…
Place Name Named as far back as 1615 in the parish register after one Thomas Bartlett (also spelled Bartlet), King’s printer…
Place Name Named after the Leaden Hall, a large manor house owned by Sir Hugh Neville in the 14thCentury, that…