Place Name The name itself is self evident, as this street is literally beside the River Thames, it was so-called…
Place Name This was still agricultural land when John Rocque was drawing his 1746 map of London, although development was…
Place Name Much redeveloped. Today Leigh Hunt Street is a pathway through the Mint Street Park. James Henry Leigh Hunt…
Place Name Originally Orange Street. It is named after the eponymous hero of Charles Dickens’s novel David Copperfield whose ever…
Place Name Previously Union Square. Charles John Huffam Dickens (February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870) was an author, journalist, and…
Place Name Previously the site of Falcon Court. Charles Dickens wrote extensively about the notorious Marshalsea debtors’ prison where his…
Place Name After the theatre of animal cruelty that once stood here. For it was here that bears and bulls…