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Tag: Southwark

Basing Court, SE15

2 December 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Previously called Basing Place when it was developed in 1936 this is a lonely reminder of the old…

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Filed under: Basynges Manor, Medieval name, name change, Rye Lane, Southwark, streets with a Hampshire connection

Bankside, SE1

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Place Name The name itself is self evident, as this street is literally beside the River Thames, it was so-called…

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Filed under: Borough and Bankside, industry, River Thames, Southwark

Balaclava Road, SE1

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Place Name Commemorating one of the most famous and romanticised battles in British history, the Battle of Balaclava, which took…

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Filed under: Bermondsey, South Bermondsey, Southwark, streets named after battle sites, streets named after places in Ukraine, streets named after the Crimean War, victorian

America Street, SE1

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Place Name This was still agricultural land when John Rocque was drawing his 1746 map of London, although development was…

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Filed under: America, Borough and Bankside, Southwark, streets with a North American connection

Alma Grove, SE1

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Place Name Originally Alma Road. Named the first battle of the Crimean War, in which Britain and France joined Turkey…

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Filed under: South Bermondsey, Southwark, streets named after battle sites, streets named after places in Ukraine, streets named after the Crimean War, victorian

Abbey Street, SE1

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Place Name A religious house of one sort or the other existed in the area from before AD715 but is…

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Filed under: Bermondsey, London Bridge and West Bermondsey, Southwark, streets named after religious houses

Trafalgar Street, SE17

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Place Name The first significant development appears to have begun during the later years of, or immediately after the end…

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Filed under: Camberwell and Peckham, Faraday, Horatio Nelson, Napoleonic Wars, Royal Navy, Southwark, Streets named after a Spanish connection, Walworth

Half Moon Lane, SE24

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Place Name Known from ancient times as Greenstreet, and from the 1720s until about 1800 as Ireland Green (after James…

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Filed under: Dulwich Village, name change, Southwark, streets named after pubs

Acre Drive, SE22

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Place Name Laid out over the grounds of a former detached house on Crystal Palace Road, which was demolished to…

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Filed under: Dulwich, Goose Green, Private Road, Southwark

Acacia Grove, SE21

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Place Name Built in 1866. According to Camberwell Place and Street Names and their Origin there may have been a Masonic…

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Filed under: Dulwich, Dulwich Wood, Southwark, streets named after trees

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