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…
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Place Name In the first half of the 14thCentury a dispute broke out between the Abbot of Chertsey and the…
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Place Name Previously named Church Alley. This was the site of the Royal Wardrobe, a property bought by Edward III…
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Place Name Named by association with Knightrider Street, which used to be part of one of the big thoroughfares through…
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Place Name Previously George Street. After the official house of the Lord Mayor of London, which was completed in 1752…
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Place Name A public right of way, that survived new development. The name can be traced as far back as…
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Place Name Recalling the Abbots of Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk who were given a property here sometime before 1160,…
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Place Name Charterhouse comes from an Anglicisation of Chartreuse, from the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the Carthusians in Burgundy,…
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Place Name Charterhouse comes from an Anglicisation of Chartreuse, from the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the Carthusians in Burgundy,…
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