Place Name Previously part of Bayswater Road, this small stretch of road between Ossington Street and Palace Court was renamed…
Place Name Originally Dirty Lane and later Charles Street. Dr Thomas Augustine Arne (March 12, 1710 – March 5, 1778), was…
Place Name The name suggests it was connected with a water channel but in fact it comes from an innkeeper…
Place name Descriptive. Laid out with a slight curve between 1633 and 1677. As John Strype explained in 1740: “So called…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. This was originally a field owned by Westminster Abbey but had, at the time of development,…
Place Name Previously Chapel Alley. Sir William Slingsby (29 January 1563 – August 1634), was an adventurer and property speculator.…
Place Name This ancient path was once a trackway leading from the City, where it ran through Cripplegate, Aldersgate and…
Place Name Previously called Little Hart Street (from Conduit Court to James Street) and Great Hart Street (from James Street…
Place Name Laid out as part of the slum clearance scheme made law under the Strand Improvement Act of 1829,…
Place Name John William Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough (August 31, 1781 – May 16, 1847), known as Viscount Duncannon…