Place name Named after a local carpenter Stephen Fann whose will in 1613 noted that he had property in the…
Place Name Named after the Lincolnshire town that was the birthplace of brothers John and Charles Wesley, it has given its name…
Place name This has undergone many name changes in the past few centuries. It was originally a particularly wide bend…
Place Name Formerly North Street, although the area has undergone much redevelopment. It was renamed in the 1830s after John…
Place name Named after the Chequers Inn whose sign was a chequerboard, which was recorded here in 1665. In the…
Place Name Originally Charles Street. This was laid out over the former gardens of the Earl of Bridgewater’s residence, Bridgewater House,…
Place Name Previously Baltic Street. This street and others located nearby were built by a timber merchant Thomas Hacker who in…
Place Name This is an old street name, recorded as Chysel Strate as early as 1217 and as Cheselstrete by 1458. There…
Place name Until 1813 this was called Great Swordbearers’ Alley. It was changed to commemorate Thomas Lamb overseer of the…
Place Name Previously Grub Street. Despite the street’s long-standing literary connections it was not renamed after the poet rather a…