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Tag: Anglo-Saxon street name

Aldgate, EC3N

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Place Name Previously Aldgate Street (Alegatestrete), a name that ran all the way down to Lime Street. Aldgate is a…

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Filed under: Aldgate, Anglo-Saxon street name, City of London, name change, streets named after a Roman connection, streets named after pubs

Aldermanbury Square, EC2V

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Place Name The ancient manor after which this street was first recorded was written down as Aldermanesburi sometime around 1124,…

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Filed under: Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Bassishaw, City of London

Addle Hill, EC4V

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Place Name Thought to be where a Saxon royal had once made their home since the first recorded name, from…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon street name, Castle Baynard, City of London, royal

Lower Addiscombe Road, CR0

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PLACE NAME A reference to the earlier Addiscombe Road, which according to East Croydon Community Organisation (ECCO) first appeared on…

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Filed under: Addiscombe East, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Croydon, Old English

Addiscombe Road, CR0

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Place Name Eadda or Æddi’s estate from an Anglo-Saxon personal name and the word camp, meaning an enclosed area in…

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Filed under: Addiscombe, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Croydon, Old English

Waddington Avenue, CR5

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Place Name Remembering the hamlet which was subsumed into Kenley in the 20thCentury. The name Waddington goes back to Saxon…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon street name, Croydon, Croydon South, Old Coulsdon, Old English

Addington Village Road, CR0

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Place Name Previously part of Featherbed Lane. The name Addington is a corruption of Eddintone, which was recorded in the…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon street name, Croydon, name change, Selsdon and Addington Village

Addington Road, CR0

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Place Name Originally this road only extended between Longley Road and Lambeth Road in the mid-1860s. The name Addington is…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon street name, Broad Green, Croydon

Langthorne Road, E11

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Place Name Previously Union Road it was renamed in 1948 although it apparently had many other names Blind Lane; Irish…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon street name, Cathall Ward, Leytonstone, name change, streets named after abbeys, streets named after buildings, streets named after trees, Waltham Forest

Bethnal Green Road, E2

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Place Name Directional the road leading from Shoreditch to Bethnal Green. The eastern end of the route has been in…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon street name, Middle English, St Peter's, Tower Hamlets

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