Origins of London Street Names - Places beginning with E

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Earl Street
Millbank, Westminster. (SW1) Named after the Earl of Romney, who owned the property. (Reference: Timbs's... more »
Earls Court
Kensington. (SW5) Named after the residence of the Lords of the Manor (the Veres, Earls... more »
Eastcheap
City. (EC3) Took its name from a market anciently there kept for the serving of... more »
East Smithfield
City, Little Tower Hill. (E1) Here Edmund Spenser, the poet, was born. (Reference: Jesse's London,... more »
Ebury Street
Pimlico. (SW1) Tennyson stayed at No. 42 in this street in 1847.... more »
Eccleston Street
Buckingham Palace Road. (SW1) Named from Eccleston in Cheshire, a seat of the Dukes of... more »
Eden Street
13, Hampstead Road. (NW1) Here were the "Adam and Eve" Teagardens, hence the name of... more »
Edgware Road
Marble Arch. (W2) The road to Edgware. A very ancient thoroughfare continuing Watling Street, the... more »
Effra Road
Brixton. (SW2) Named from the little River Effra, a stream which is not now visible.... more »
Elm Court
Inner Temple. (EC4) Lord Keeper Guildford first commenced practice here, and in this court the... more »
Elm Tree Road
St. John's Wood. (NW8) Tom Hood, author of "The Dream of Eugene Aram," "The Song... more »
Ely Place
1, Charterhouse Street, Holborn. (EC1) The site of the town-house of the Bishops of Ely.... more »
Endsleigh Gardens
St. Pancras. (WC1) Christina Rossetti at one time lived at No. 5.... more »
Ennismore Gardens
Princes Gate, Kensington Road. (SW7) Name derived from the second title, Viscount Ennismore, of the... more »
Essex Court
Middle Temple. (EC4) Here lived another errant man of letters, at No. 5 (now rebuilt)... more »
Essex Street
Strand. (WC2) Stands on the site of an ancient mansion built by Walter Stapleton, Bishop... more »
Evelyn Street
Deptford. (SE8) Named from the family of John Evelyn, the diarist.... more »
Exeter Street
Strand. (WC2) Here Dr. Johnson, unfriended and almost penniless, first lived with David Garrick, when... more »
Eyre Street Hill
Clerkenwell Road, Holborn. (EC1) Here, in a sponging-house, in 1806, died the celebrated painter George... more »
Eatton Garden
Holborn. (EC1) Derives its name from being the site where the house and gardens of... more »

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