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Tag: Westminster

Bayswater Road, W2

5 December 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name This was once the main route out of the City to Oxford and it was here that travellers…

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Filed under: Bayswater, Medieval name, street names connected with horses, street names connected with transport, Westminster

Baker Street, W1U

11 November 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name It is a name so familiar you might think its origins were set into the very foundations of…

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Filed under: Baker family, Marylebone High Street, Portman Estate, Westminster

India Place, WC2B

9 August 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Formerly a part of Montreal Place which, along with the corresponding passage Melbourne Place at the other end…

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Filed under: Empire, India, name change, St James's, streets named after an Indian connection, streets named after Empire, Westminster

Finchley Place, NW8

5 August 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Side road of the main Finchley Road. Finchley is thought to be named after the birds that nested…

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Filed under: Abbey Road, Anglo-Saxon, Old English, streets named after birds, streets named after woods, Westminster

Finchley Road, NW8

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Place Name Directional, this 4.5 mile long road leads from West Hampstead to Finchley. The road is relatively new. Thought…

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Filed under: Abbey Road, Anglo-Saxon, Old English, Regent's Park, streets named after birds, streets named after woods, Westminster

Kyiv Road, W2

24 February 2023 Jessica Wheeler Leave a comment

Place Name Previously part of Bayswater Road, this small stretch of road between Ossington Street and Palace Court was renamed…

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Filed under: Bayswater, Campden, Kensington and Chelsea, name change, Westminster

Arne Street, WC2E

8 February 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Originally Dirty Lane and later Charles Street. Dr Thomas Augustine Arne (March 12, 1710 – March 5, 1778), was…

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Filed under: Covent Garden, Eton, St James's, streets named after composers, streets named after Eton connection, streets named after musicians, Westminster

Conduit Court, WC2E

7 February 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name The name suggests it was connected with a water channel but in fact it comes from an innkeeper…

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Filed under: Covent Garden, St James's, streets named after landlords, Westminster

Bow Street, WC2E

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Place name Descriptive. Laid out with a slight curve between 1633 and 1677. As John Strype explained in 1740: “So called…

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Filed under: Covent Garden, St James's, Westminster

Long Acre, WC2E

5 February 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Agricultural heritage. This was originally a field owned by Westminster Abbey but had, at the time of development,…

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Filed under: Agricultural, agriculture, Covent Garden, St James's, Westminster

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