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Origins of London Street Names - Places beginning with L

• La Belle Sauvage

  Ludgate Hill. (EC3) Stow mentions a Mrs. Savage as having given the inn to the... more »
  
  

• Lambs Conduit Street

  Holborn. (WC1) Derives its name from one William Lamb, an ancient cloth worker, who erected... more »
  
  

• Lancaster Street

  Southwark. (SE1) Name derived from Joseph Lancaster, founder of the British and Foreign School Society.... more »
  
  

• Langham Place

  Portland Place. (W1) Named from Sir James Langham, whose mansion and grounds occupied the site... more »
  
  

• Langham Street

  Portland Place. (W1) Named from Sir James Langham, whose mansion and grounds occupied the site... more »
  
  

• Lant Street

  Southwark Bridge Road. (SE1) Dickens had lodgings in a back attic in this street while... more »
  
  

• Leadenhall Street

  City. (EC3) So called from "Leaden Hall," a large and ponderous-looking mansion inhabited about the... more »
  
  

• Leicester Square

  (WC2) Named from the Earls of Leicester, who lived here. Here also lived two or... more »
  
  

• Lime Street

  City. (EC3) Name derived from the making and selling of lime there. (Reference: Kingsford's Stow,... more »
  
  

• Limehouse

  Stepney. (E14) So called from a lime-kiln, generally known as the lime-house, which stood here.... more »
  
  

• Lincolns Inn

  Holborn. (WC2) Derives its name from having been the site of the palace, or inne,... more »
  
  

• Lisle Street

  Leicester Square. (WC2) Occupies the site of the gardens of Leicester House, of which the... more »
  
  

• Lisson Grove

  Marylebone Road. (NW1) Said to have been formerly known as Lideston Green, a corruption of... more »
  
  

• Little Britain

  City, Aldersgate Street. (EC1) Said to be named after the Dukes de Bretagne. This was... more »
  
  

• Little Stanhope Street

  Hertford Street, Mayfair. (W1) Built about 1761. Here lived Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1796-1800; Lord Lytton,... more »
  
  

• Liverpool Street

  City. (EC2) Named after Lord Liverpool, Prime Minister 1812-27. (Harben's Dictionary of London, p. 356)... more »
  
  

• Lombard Street

  City. (EC3) So named from the money-dealers who came from Lombardy, and first established the... more »
  
  

• London Wall

  City. (EC2) So called as having the City wall running along the north side. (Reference:... more »
  
  

• Long Acre

  Drury Lane. (WC2) This, in the reign of Henry VIII, was an open field, called... more »
  
  

• Lothbury

  City. (EC2) "Anciently called Louthberie, and took its name (as it seemeth) of a Bery... more »
  
  

• Lots Road

  Chelsea. (SW10) . Running parallel to the river, retains in its name a memory of... more »
  
  

• Love Lane

  City, Aldermanbury. (EC4) So called of wantons, Stow says (ed. 1603, p. 298) . But... more »
  
  

• Lovells Court

  City, Paternoster Row. (EC4) This is built on the site of a mansion first belonging... more »
  
  

• Lower Grosvenor Place

  (SW1) Here died the beautiful actress Mrs. Oldfield, in 1730. (Reference: Jesse's London, vol. I,... more »
  
  

• Lowndes Square

  (SW1) So named from William Lowndes, of Chesham, who was the ground-landlord. (Davis's Memorials of... more »
  
  

• Ludgate Hill

  City. (EC4) Formerly called Bowyer's Row, and derives its present name from one of the... more »