Origins of London Street Names - Places beginning with F

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Fair Street
196, Tooley Street, Bermondsey. (SE1) The site of the once famous Horseleydown Fair, and named... more »
Falcon Court
Fleet Street. (EC4) Took its name from an inn, the sign of the Falcon. Wynkyn... more »
Farrars Buildings
Inner Temple. (EC4) Here Boswell had his chambers to be near Johnson. Charles Lamb lived... more »
Farringdon Street
City. (EC4) Said to be named from William le Farmdone. Beneath this street is the... more »
Featherstone Buildings
Holborn. (WC1) Here Sheridan brought the beautiful Miss Linley on their elopement from Bath.... more »
Featherstone Street
City Road. (EC1) Origin of the name unknown, but probably from a family so called.... more »
Fenchurch Street
City. (EC3) Took its name "from a fennie or moorish ground, so made by means... more »
Fetter Lane
City. (EC4) Anciently called Fewterer's Lane. Fewterers were a sort of idle and disorderly persons... more »
Fig Tree Court
Inner Temple. (EC4) So called from the fig trees which once thrived there.... more »
Finch Lane
City, 80, Cornhill. (EC3) Formerly Finke Lane, so called of Robert Finke, who new-built the... more »
Finsbury
(EC2) Or Fensbury, named from its fenny ground. Finsbury appears to have been a very... more »
Finsbury Circus
City. (EC2) For origin, see supra. Here at one time stood the Bethlehem Hospital. In... more »
Finsbury Square
(EC2) Built in 1789 by George Dance, R.A., on the north side of Moorfields. At... more »
Fish Street Hill
City. (EC3) Stow says: "So called from being one of the resorts of fishmongers."... more »
Fitchetts Court
City. (EC2) On the east side of Noble Street, City. "Fitche's Court hath pretty good... more »
Fitzroy Square
Tottenham Court Road. (W1) Named from Charles Fitzroy, second Duke of Grafton. The east and... more »
Flask Walk
Hampstead. (NW3) "The Flask" Tavern in this street is on the site of one of... more »
Fleet Street
City. (EC4) Famous for journalists and newspapers, this street is named from the creek or... more »
Fleur De Lis Court
9, Fetter Lane. (EC4) Name derived from the sign of the fleur de lis. Said... more »
Foley Street
Langham Street. (W1) So called after Lord Foley, who was connected with the Harley family... more »
Fore Street
City, Cripplegate. (EC2) Daniel Defoe (the author of Robinson Crusoe) was a freeman of the... more »
Foster Lane
City. (EC2) Said very curiously to have been originally named St. Vedast's. It is, however,... more »
Fouberts Place
206, Regent Street. (W1) Takes its name from a Major Foubert who kept a military... more »
Frederick Place
City, Old Jewry. (EC2) Named from King James I's surgeon, Sir Christopher Frederick.... more »
Friday Street
City, 36, Cheapside. (EC4) Derives its name from its having been inhabited by fishmongers, who... more »
Frith Street
Soho. (W1) Built circa 1680, and said to be so called from Mr. Richard Frith,... more »
Furnivals Inn
Holborn. (EC4) "Furnivalles Inn, now an Inn of Chancery, but some time belonging to Sir... more »
Fyefoot Lane
City. (EC4) "Or five foot lane, because it is but five foot in breadth at... more »