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Origins of London Street Names - Places beginning with E

• 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 »