Place Name Following the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537, much of the land held by the Carthusian monks of…
Place Name Named after Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (October 3, 1554 – September 30, 1628), who bought a property here…
Place Name Named after John Greenhill, former landlord of the Castle Tavern on Cowcross Street, who owned various plots around…
Place Name This is approximately where Three Fox Court used to stand after the name of an inn that was…
Place Name Literal. Surprisingly there was once a medieval cross here near its junction with St John Street and it…
Place Name A relatively new road, it was created as part of a Victorian improvement scheme in 1878 by the…
Place Name A medieval path, first referenced in 1602, through the Bishop of Ely’s gardens, which were famed for their…
Place Name Named after the Monastic Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, which was founded sometime…
Place Name Named after the Lincolnshire-born Thomas Sutton (1532 – December 12, 1611), a merchant and founder of the Charterhouse…
Place Name Listed in Stow’s Survey as St Peter’s Lane, there was a tavern called the Cross Keys or St…