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Tag: Camden

Battle Bridge Place, NW1

4 December 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place name Previously Suffolk Street West and, more recently, Battle Bridge Road. As names go few evoke a sense of…

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Filed under: Camden, fake history, King's Cross, lost streets, name change, St Pancras

Agar Place, NW1

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Place Name William Agar (1767 – November 5, 1838) was an irascible Yorkshireman, who lived in the vicinity. Agar, a…

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Filed under: Camden, Camden Square, Regent's Canal, streets named after people with a Yorkshire connection, streets named after slum landlords, streets named after Unitarians

Agar Grove, NW1

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Place Name Previously known as St Paul’s Road, it was renamed Agar Grove in the first half of the 20thCentury,…

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Filed under: Camden, Camden Square, name change, Regent's Canal, streets named after people with a Yorkshire connection, streets named after slum landlords, streets named after Unitarians

Tavistock Place, WC1N

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Place Name Laid out over the extensive lands of the former Bloomsbury town house of the dukes of Bedford. The…

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Filed under: Bedford Estate, bloomsbury, Camden, Dissolution of the monasteries, Duke of Bedford, streets named after Cambridge graduates, streets named after places in Devon, streets named after religious houses, streets named after Westminster School connection

Tavistock Square, WC1H

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Place Name Laid out over the extensive lands of the former Bloomsbury town house of the dukes of Bedford. The…

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Filed under: Bedford Estate, Camden, Dissolution of the monasteries, Duke of Bedford, streets named after Cambridge graduates, streets named after places in Devon, streets named after religious houses, streets named after Westminster School connection

Hampstead Road, NW1

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Place Name Directional as it leads to Hampstead. A continuation of Tottenham Court Road his is an ancient – and…

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Filed under: Camden, Regent's Park

Hampstead Hill Gardens, NW3

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Place Name Descriptive, this was a small estate originally owned by George Crispin which was developed by 1873. Most of…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon street name, Camden, Hampstead Town, victorian

Hampstead High Street, NW3

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Place Name This is thought to be the oldest inhabited part of Hampstead town, on the southern slopes of the…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon street name, Camden, Hampstead Town

Hampstead Gate, NW3

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Place Name Laid out over a former building contractor’s yard. It leads to a three-storey purpose-built gated office development that…

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Filed under: Camden, Frognal

Hampstead Square, NW3

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Place Name Descriptive. Described in 1725 as having been, 60 years previously, a “high hill and a sandpit so that…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon street name, Camden, Hampstead Town

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