Place Name Descriptive, this is a mound by the Tower of London. First recorded in 1343, nearly 150 years after…
Place Name This relatively new access road has a far older history than at first it may appear. The name…
Place Name This road occupies what was once part of the City ditch, once part of the London Wall defences.…
Place Name Named after Sir Thomas Savage (circa 1586 – November 20, 1635), who owned a house on the site…
Place Name Named after the famous 17thCentury diarist Samuel Pepys (February 23, 1633 – May 26, 1703) who worked as…
Place Name It means the road of chaff or bran, the discarded waste product of the corn threshing that took…
Place Name This was the backyard to the busy inn of the same name which was first recorded here sometime…
Place Name In 1824 the East India Company took control of Myanmar (previously Burma), a province of India at the…
Place Name Named after its 18thCentury builder, Benjamin Hammett, a haberdasher and businessman who served as an MP. He laid…
Place Name Descriptive, as this crosses the boundary of the medieval City wall between the Tower and Aldgate. The remains…