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Origins of London Street Names - Places beginning with L

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  • 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 »

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