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Tag: streets named after poets

Kipling Drive, SW19

5 March 2025 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was a journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.…

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Filed under: cluster, Merton, streets named after poets, Wandle, Wimbledon

Keats Close, SW19

4 March 2025 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, one…

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Filed under: cluster, Collier's Wood, Merton, streets named after poets, Wandle, Wimbledon

Burns Close, SW19

28 February 2025 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 – July 21, 1796) was the famed Scottish poet whose works include Auld…

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Filed under: cluster, Merton, Scotland, streets named after a Scottish connection, streets named after poets, Wandle, Wimbledon

Swinburne Road, SW15

17 November 2024 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909) was one of the bad boys of poetry…

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Filed under: Balliol College, Dover House Estate, Putney, streets named after Eton connection, streets named after masochists, streets named after Oxford graduates, streets named after poets, Wandsworth, West Putney

Leigh Hunt Street, SE1

15 August 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Much redeveloped. Today Leigh Hunt Street is a pathway through the Mint Street Park. James Henry Leigh Hunt…

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Filed under: Borough and Bankside, Charles Dickens, journalist, Southwark, streets named after people who have been in prison, streets named after poets

Leigh Hunt Drive, N14

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Place Name James Henry Leigh Hunt (October 19, 1784 – August 28, 1859), known as simply Leigh Hunt, was a…

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Filed under: Charles Dickens, Enfield, journalist, Prince Regent, Southgate, streets named after people who have been in prison, streets named after poets

Tennyson Street, SW8

3 March 2021 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Alfred Tennyson (August 6, 1809 – October 6, 1892), or Alfred Lord Tennyson as he came to be…

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Filed under: Queenstown, streets named after Cambridge graduates, streets named after poets, Wandsworth

Lytton Road, EN5

17 May 2020 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (May 25, 1803 – January 18, 1873) was a colourful writer and politician…

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Filed under: streets named after poets, streets named after Whigs

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