Place Name Named after the powerful Basing family who were prominent in the City at the beginning of the 13thCentury.…
Place Name Originally plain High Street. The western end became Aldgate High Street and from Aldgate Station east Whitechapel High…
Place Name Previously Aldgate Street (Alegatestrete), a name that ran all the way down to Lime Street. Aldgate is a…
Place Name The ancient manor after which this street was first recorded was written down as Aldermanesburi sometime around 1124,…
Place Name Thought to be where a Saxon royal had once made their home since the first recorded name, from…
Place Name The adjacent St Helen’s Church, Bishopsgate is all that remains of the former priory that stood nearby. The…
Place Name Named after the Leaden Hall, a large manor house owned by Sir Hugh Neville in the 14thCentury, that…
Place Name In the first half of the 14thCentury a dispute broke out between the Abbot of Chertsey and the…
Place Name Previously named Church Alley. This was the site of the Royal Wardrobe, a property bought by Edward III…
Place Name Named by association with Knightrider Street, which used to be part of one of the big thoroughfares through…