Place Name Named in honour of William Spurstowe, a 17thCentury vicar of Hackney and benefactor who in 1666 gave lands for the…
Place Name Named after Christopher Urswick (1448 – 1522), Rector of the Parish of Hackney from 1502 to 1522. On…
Place Name This is likely to have been inspired by the myth of how Shoreditch got its name. While historians…
Place Name Named after Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London between 1550 – 1553. The Bishops of London owned the local…
Place Name Descriptive. These originally formed part of the landholding of the Priory at Clerkenwell. But some 60 acres of…
Place Name Previously called John Street. Dunn’s Cottages stood here, probably built by a builder called Dunn who was active…
Place Name Named after the Rhodes family’s Lamb Farm Estate, which was originally purchased by Samuel Rhodes I in 1788-9. Large-scale…
Place Name Development of the area began in 1821 when Lamb Farm began to be laid out for streets. While…
Place Name Named in 1883 to commemorate Arthur Dericote, a prominent Hackney resident, who died on November 12, 1562. Despite…
Place Name Named after John Hillman who served on Metropolitan Borough Council of Hackney from before 1912. He was chairman of…