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Origins of London Street Names - Places beginning with T
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St. Pancras. (WC1) Here, at No. 32, lived Francis Douce, the illustrator of Shakespeare, and... more »
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Woburn Place. (WC1) Named from the ground-landlord, the Duke of Bedford and Marquis of Tavistock.... more »
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Covent Garden. (WC2) Name derived from Marquisate of Tavistock. (Reference: Jesse's London, vol. I, p.... more »
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City, 12, Moorgate Street. (EC2) Originally called Great Bell Yard. At No. 14, Bloomfield, the... more »
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City. (EC4) Originally a wooden gate-house across the road, to divide the City from Westminster.... more »
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City, Upper Thames Street. (EC4) "So called, not only of a sign of Three Cranes... more »
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City, Lothbury. (EC2) Not improbably derives its designation from the family name of the accomplished... more »
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Park Lane. (W1) No. 6, overlooking Hyde Park, was for long the residence of Mrs.... more »
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Chelsea. (SW3) Named after Sir W. Tite, M.P. The houses are modern, built in the... more »
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City, Lothbury. (EC2) Is named from the Mint-house, or office for the issue and change... more »
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Cursitor Street. (WC2) "Cook's Court" of Bleak House, where Mr. Snagsby lived, once a place... more »
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Bermondsey. (SE1) On the site of this street stood the inn or mansion of the... more »
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Westminster. (SW1) Built on the site of Tothill Fields, where, in the year 1793, there... more »
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(W1) So called from the prebendal manor of Toten-Hall at its north-west extremity, which was... more »
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This famous bridge was built by Sir John Wolfe Barry, a son of Sir Charles... more »
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City. (EC3) Stow says: "Tower Hill, sometime a large plot of ground, now greatly straightened... more »
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City. (EC3) Said to be the oldest fortress prison in Europe, much of what we... more »
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Charing Cross. (WC2) Built 1839-52, is named from the last victory of Nelson, to whom... more »
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Knightsbridge. (SW7) So named from Sir John Trevor, who had a house on its site.... more »
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City. (EC2) The persons who followed the trade of trumpet-makers mostly lived, in all probability,... more »
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City, Farringdon Street. (EC4) The name suggests Tindale's words in 1531, "a turnagaine lane which... more »
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Clerkenwell. (EC1) Is of great antiquity, and of peculiar interest, from its disreputable associations, it... more »
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