Place Name Charterhouse comes from an Anglicisation of Chartreuse, from the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the Carthusians in Burgundy,…
Place Name Before 1936 this was Mulberry Place, remembering the Mulberry Pleasure Garden which opened in 1742 in Corporation Row.…
Place Name Like Baker’s Row, named after Richard Baker, a carpenter from St Pancras who leased the land from a…
Place Name Originally John Street between 1819 and 1897 when it was changed to Lofting Road. Corruption of Reverend Arthur…
Place Name Laid out over the former gardens of the Earl of Bridgewater’s residence, Bridgewater House, which was destroyed by fire…
Place name Originally Albion Road when it was laid out around 1839. John Spencer Furlong (died in 1895) of 16…
Place name Laid out in 1887 as part of a cluster of roads that were named after Shakespearean characters. Parolles…
Place Name Cressida appears in William Shakespeare’s retelling of the Trojan War love and betrayal story Troilus & Cressida. It…
Place Name Originally the entrance to a light industrial park or factory. The road was named sometime around 2012. It…
Place Name Laid out in 1885 as part of a cluster of roads that were named after Shakespearean characters. Lysander…