Street names of the City of London

This is a list of the etymology of street names in the City of London.

• Abchurch Lane and Abchurch Yard – after the adjacent St Mary Abchurch^[1][2][3]
• Adam's Court – thought to be for Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet, master of the Worshipful Company of Drapers and later Lord Mayor of London^[4]
• Addle Hill – from an Old English word for prince (athling)^[5][6][7]
• Addle Street – from an Old English word for filth/dung, presumably descriptive,^[5] though also may be the same etymology as Addle Hill above^[7]
• Alban Highwalk and St Albans Court – after the adjacent St Alban, Wood Street church, of which only the tower now remains^[8]
• Albion Place (off London Wall)
• Albion Way
• Aldermanbury and Aldermanbury Square – the site of a burgh (enclosed settlement) of a Saxon-era alderman^[9][10][11]
• Alderman's Walk – formerly Dashwood's Walk, for Francis Dashwood, who lived here in the 18th century; it was changed when he became an alderman^[9][11]
• Aldersgate Court and Aldersgate Street – the name Aldersgate is first recorded around 1000 in the form Ealdredesgate, i.e. 'gate associated with a man named Ealdrād'. The gate, constructed by the Romans in the 2nd or 3rd centuries when London Wall was constructed, probably acquired its name in the late Saxon period^[12]
• Aldgate, Aldgate Avenue and Aldgate High Street – thought to be an alteration of Old Gate; others think it stems from Ale Gate (after a local inn) or All Gate (as it was open to all)^{[13][14][15][16][17][18]}
• Allhallows Lane – after the church of All-Hallows-the-Great and Less, both destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666; the Great was rebuilt by Christopher Wren, but was demolished in 1894^[19][20]
• Amen Corner and Amen Court – by association with the nearby St Paul's Cathedral^[21][22]
• America Square – laid out in 1767–1770 by George Dance the Younger and named in honour of the American colonies^[23][22]
• Andrewes Highwalk – presumably after Lancelot Andrewes, rector of the nearby St Giles-without-Cripplegate Church
• Angel Court – named after a long demolished inn of this name^[24][25]
• Angel Lane
• Angel Street – after a demolished inn of this name; formerly Angle Alley^[24][25]
• Apothecary Street – after the nearby Worshipful Society of Apothecaries^[24][26]
• Appold Street
• The Arcade (Liverpool Street) – presumably descriptive
• Arthur Street – unknown^[27]
• Artillery Lane – this formerly led to the Tasel Close Artillery Yard, which stood here in the 17th–18th centuries^[28][27]
• Artizan Street
• Ashentree Court – after the ashen trees formerly located here at the Whitefriars' monastery^[29]
• Athene Place
• Austin Friars and Austin Friars Passage and Austin Friars Square – after Austin Friars, a medieval friary which stood here in the Medieval period^[28][30]
• Ave Maria Lane – after the Hail Mary (Ave Maria), by association with the nearby St Paul's Cathedral^[21][30]
• The Avenue (Cutlers Gardens) – presumably descriptive

• Back Alley – presumably descriptive
• Back Passage – presumably descriptive
• Bakers Hall Court – after the nearby hall of the Worshipful Company of Bakers^[31]
• Ball Court
• Baltic Street West – the streets here were built by a timber merchant circa 1810 who named them after trade-related activities; Baltic refers to the Baltic softwood trade^[32][33]
• Barbon Alley – after Nicholas Barbon, 17th-century economist ^[34]
• Barley Mow Passage – after a former inn here of this name, possibly by reference to alcohol, or else a corruption of the nearby St Bartholomew's church and hospital^[35]
• Barnard's Inn – named after Lionel Barnard, owner of a town house (or 'inn') here in the mid-15th century^[36]
• Bartholomew Close and Bartholomew Place – after St Bartholomew's Priory, which stood here and is remembered in the names of the local hospital and two churches^[37][38]
• Bartholomew Lane – after the former St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange church, demolished in 1840^[37][39][40]
• Bartlett Court, Bartlett Street and Bartletts Passage – after Thomas Bartlett, court printer to Edward VI, who owned property here^[41][42]
• Basinghall Avenue and Basinghall Street – thought to be after land owned here by the people of Basa or Basing (in Old Basing, Hampshire), or possibly after a mansion house of the Bassing (or Basing) family, who were prominent in the City beginning in the 13th century^{[37][43][44][42]}
• Bassishaw Highwalk – after the Bassishaw ward in which it is located^[42]
• Bastion Highwalk – presumably after the adjacent Roman bastion ruins
• Bear Alley – thought to be after a former inn of this name^[45][46]
• Beech Gardens and Beech Street – after beech trees which formerly stood here; the name is an old one, recorded as Bechestrete in the 13th century^[47][48]
• Beehive Passage – after a former tavern here of this name^[48]
• Bengal Court – presumably after the former British colony of Bengal
• Bell Court
• Bell Inn Yard – after a former inn of this name^[49][50]
• Bell Wharf Lane – unknown, possibly after a former tavern of this name; formerly Emperor's Head Lane, after an inn here^[51][50]
• Ben Jonson Place – after Ben Jonson, 17th-century playwright and poet
• Bennet's Hill – after the adjacent St Benet's church^[52]
• Bevis Marks – corruption of Bury Marks, after a former house on this site given to Bury St Edmunds Abbey in the 1100s; mark is thought to note a boundary here^[53][54][55]
• Billiter Court and Billiter Street – after former belzeter (bell foundry) located here^[56][57][58]
• Birchin Lane – unknown, though suggested to come from the Old English beord-ceorfere ('beard carver' i.e. a barber's); it has had several variations on this name in the past, including Berchervere, Berchenes and Birchen^[56][55][59]
• Bishop's Court
• Bishopsgate, Bishopsgate Arcade and Bishopsgate Churchyard – after one of the city gates that formerly stood here, thought to commemorate Saint Earconwald, Bishop of London in the 7th century^[60][61]
• Blackfriars Bridge, Blackfriars Court, Blackfriars Lane, Blackfriars Passage and Blackfriars Underpass – after the former Dominican (or Black friars, after their robes) friary that stood here 1276–1538^[62][63]
• Blomfield Street – after Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of London 1828–1856^[64][65]
• Bloomberg Arcade – after its owners/developers Bloomberg L.P.
• Bolt Court – thought to be after a former tavern called the Bolt-in-Tun^[66][67]
• Bond Court – after a 17th-century property developer of this name^[68][69]
• Booth Lane
• Botolph Alley and Botolph Lane – after the St Botolph Billingsgate church which stood near here, destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666^[68][39][70]
• Bouverie Street – after William Bouverie, 1st Earl of Radnor^[71][72]
• Bow Churchyard and Bow Lane – after the adjacent St Mary-le-Bow church; it was formerly known as Hosier Lane (after the local stocking making trade), and prior to that Cordewanere Street (meaning 'leather-workers')^[73][2][72]
• Brabant Court – thought to be after the Dutch/Belgian province of this name, though possibly a corruption of a personal name (prior to the 18th century it was known as Braben Court, and before that Brovens Court)^[74]
• Brackley Street – after the Earls of Bridgewater, also called the Viscounts Brackley, who owned a house near here^[74][75]
• Braidwood Passage – presumably after 19th-century fireman James Braidwood
• Brandon Mews - after Robert Brandon (d.1369), granted the lordship of the manor Barbican in 1336 by Edward III^[76]
• Bread Street – after the bakery trade that formerly took place here^[77][78][79]
• Bream's Buildings – thought to be named for its 18th-century builder^[79]
• Breton Highwalk – presumably after the 16th–17th-century poet Nicholas Breton
• Brewer's Hall Gardens – after the adjacent Worshipful Company of Brewers hall
• Brick Court – as this was home to the first set of brick buildings in the area^[80]
• Bride Court, Bride Lane, St Bride's Avenue, St Bride's Passage and St Bride Street – after the adjacent St Bride's Church^[81][39][80]
• Bridewell Place – after the adjacent St Bride's Church and a well that was formerly located here in the early Middle Ages; the name was later given to Bridewell Palace (demolished in the 1860s)^[82][80]
• Bridgewater Highwalk, Bridgewater Square and Bridgewater Street – after the Earls of Bridgewater, also called the Viscounts Brackley, who owned a house near here^[74][75]
• Britannic Highwalk
• Broadgate and Broadgate Circle – developed in the late 1980s, presumably named for the former Broad Street station on this site and the adjacent Bishopsgate
• Broad Lane, Broad Street Avenue, New Broad Street and Old Broad Street – simply a descriptive name, dating to the early Middle Ages; the northernmost section was formerly 'New Broad Street'; however, this has now switched onto an adjacent side street^[83][84][85]
• Broken Wharf – this wharf fell into disrepair owing to a property dispute in the 14th century^[86][87]
• Brown's Buildings
• Brushfield Street – after Thomas Brushfield, Victorian-era representative for this area at the Metropolitan Board of Works; the westernmost section, here forming the boundary with Tower Hamlets, was formerly called Union Street^[88][89]
• Bucklersbury and Bucklersbury Passage – after the Buckerel/Bucherel family who owned land here in the 1100s^[88][90][91]
• Budge Row – formerly home to the drapery trade; a budge/boge was a type of lamb's wool^[92][93][91]
• Bull's Head Passage – thought to be after an inn or shop of this name^[94][91]
• Bunyan Court – after the author John Bunyan, who attended the nearby St Giles-without-Cripplegate church
• Burgon Street – after Dean Burgon of St Paul's Cathedral; prior to 1885 it was called New Street^[95]
• Bury Court and Bury Street – after a former house on this site given to Bury St Edmunds Abbey in the 1100s^[96][97][55]
• Bush Lane – thought to be after a former inn of this name^[96][98][99]
• Byward Street – after the adjacent Byward Tower of the Tower of London^[100][99]

• Camomile Street – after the camomile formerly grown here for medicine^[101][102]
• Canon Alley – presumably in reference to the adjacent St Paul's Cathedral
• Cannon Street – a contraction of the 14th-century Candlewick Street, meaning a street where candle-makers were based^[103][104]
• Capel Court – after William Capel, Lord Mayor of London in the early 16th century^[105]
• Carlisle Avenue – unknown^[106]
• Carmelite Street – after the Carmelite order (known as the White friars), who were granted land here by Edward I^[107][108]
• Carter Court and Carter Lane – after the cratering trade that formerly took place here,^[109][110] or possibly also after someone with this name^[111]
• Carthusian Street – after the Carthusian monks who lived near here in the Middle Ages^[112][113]
• Castle Baynard Street – after Castle Baynard which formerly stood here^[109]
• Castle Court – after a former inn of this name^[109]
• Catherine Wheel Alley – after a former inn of this name, which was named for the Catherine wheel on the coat of arms of the Worshipful Company of Turners^[114][115]
• Cavendish Court – after the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, who owed a house near here in the 1600s^[114][116]
• Chancery Lane – the former site of Edward III's office of the Master of the Rolls of Chancery^{[117][118][119]}
• Change Alley – after the nearby Royal Exchange^[117][120]
• Charterhouse Square and Charterhouse Street – Anglicisation of Chartreuse, from Grande Chartreuse, head monastery of the Carthusians in France; a nearby abbey was founded by monks of this order in 1371^[121][122]
• Cheapside and Cheapside Passage – from chepe, an Old English word meaning 'market'; this was the western end of a market that stretched over the Eastcheap^{[123][124][122]}
• Cheshire Court – after the adjacent Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub^[125]
• Chiswell Street – either for old term meaning 'stony/gravelly earth',^[126] or a corruption of 'Choice Well', denoting a source of clean water^[55]
• Church Cloisters – after the adjacent St Mary-at-Hill church; Church Passage till 1938^[127]
• Church Court – after the adjacent Temple Church
• Church Entry – after the former St Ann Blackfriars church which burned down in the 1666 fire^[128][63]
• Circus Place – after the adjacent Finsbury Circus^[129]
• Clements Lane and St Clement's Court – after the adjacent St Clement's, Eastcheap church^[39][130]
• Clerk's Place
• Clifford's Inn Passage – after an inn (townhouse) given to Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford by Edward II^[131][132]
• Cloak Lane – unknown, though possibly from cloaca, an old word for a sewer; prior to the mid-17th century it was Horseshoebridge Street, after a bridge that stood here over the Walbrook^[131][133]
• Cloth Court, Cloth Fair and Cloth Street – after a long-running cloth fair that was formerly held here^[131][134]
• Clothier Street – after the former clothes market that operated here^[131][134]
• Cobb's Court
• Cock Hill – unknown, possibly from an old inn of this name^[135]
• Cock Lane – thought to be after either cock rearing or cock fighting that formerly occurred here^{[136][137][135]}
• Coleman Street and Coleman Street Buildings – possibly after a church of this name or a personal name,^[138][139] or literally after the coalmen who formerly lived in this area in the Middle Ages^[140]
• College Hill, College Street and Little College Lane – after the adjacent St Michael Paternoster Royal, which was created as a collegiate church by Richard Whittington in 1419; College Street was formerly Paternoster Street (meaning rosary makers and College Hill was Royal Street (a corruption of La Réole, France, where local wine merchants hailed from)^{[141][142][143]}
• Compter Passage – presumably after the former Wood Street Compter
• Cooper's Row – after an 18th-century property owner of this name; prior to this it was Woodruffe Lane, also thought to be after a property owner^[144][145]
• Copthall Avenue, Copthall Buildings and Copthall Close – after a former 'copt hall' (crested hall) that stood here^[146][145]
• Corbet Court – after a local 17th-century property developer^[146]
• Cornhill – thought to be after the corn formerly grown or sold here^{[146][147][148]}
• Cousin Lane – after either Joanna or William Cousin, the first a local landowner, the latter a 14th-century sheriff^{[149][150][151]}
• Cowper's Court – after the Cowper family, local landowners^[152]
• Crane Court – formerly Two Crane Court, possibly after a coat of arms of one of the local landowning families^[152]
• Creechurch Lane and Creechurch Place – after the former Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate near here; it was also named Christ Church, later corrupted to Creechurch, and later also given to St Katharine Cree church^[153][154]
• Creed Court and Creed Lane – by association with the nearby St Paul's Cathedral^[21][154]
• Crescent – thought to be first crescent-shaped street in London^[129]
• Cripplegate Street – after the former Cripplegate that stood here, referring either to a crepel (Latin for 'covered way') or the association with the nearby St Giles-without-Cripplegate church (St Giles is the patron saint of cripples)^[153][155]
• Cromwell Highwalk and Cromwell Place – presumably after Oliver Cromwell, who was married in the nearby St Giles-without-Cripplegate Church in 1620
• Crosby Square – after Crosby House, built for Sir John Crosby, 15th-century merchant and politician^[156][157]
• Cross Keys Square – after a house or inn called Cross Keys that stood here in Tudor times^[156][157]
• Cross Lane – descriptive; it was formerly Fowle Lane (literally 'foul')^{[156][158][157]}
• Crosswall – descriptive, as it crosses the boundary of the city wall^[156][159]
• Crown Court
• Crown Office Row – after the Clerks of the Crown Office formerly located here^[160]
• Crutched Friars – after the Crutched Friars, a religious order who had a friary here in the early Middle Ages which was dissolved by Henry VIII^{[161][162][160]}
• Cullum Street – after either Sir John Cullum, 17th-century sheriff who owned land here,^[161] or Thomas Cullum^[163]
• Cunard Place – after the Cunard Line headquarters, formerly located here^[163]
• Cursitor Street – after the Cursitors' office, established here in the 16th century^[164][163]
• Custom House Walk – after the adjacent Custom House
• Cutler Street and Cutlers Gardens Arcade – after the Worshipful Company of Cutlers, who owned land here^[164][165]

• Dark House Walk – after a former inn here called the Darkhouse; it was formerly Dark House Lane, and prior to that Dark Lane^[166]
• Dean's Court – after the Dean of St Paul's^[167][168]
• Defoe Place – after the author Daniel Defoe
• Devonshire Row and Devonshire Square – after the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, who owed a house near here in the 1600s^[169][170]
• Distaff Lane – formerly Little Distaff Lane, as it lay off the main Distaff Lane (now absorbed into Cannon Street); in Medieval times the area was home to a distaff industry^{[171][172][173]}
• Doby Court – thought to be after a local landowner; prior to 1800 called Maidenhead Court^[171]
• Dorset Buildings and Dorset Rise – Salisbury Court, London home of the bishops of Salisbury, formerly stood near here; after the Dissolution of the Monasteries it passed to Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset^[174][175]
• Dowgate Hill – after a former watergate leading to the Thames here; it was formerly Duuegate, Old English for 'dove' (possibly a personal name), or possibly simply from the word 'down'^{[176][177][178]}
• Drapers Gardens – after the adjacent Worshipful Company of Drapers building^[179][180]
• Dukes Place – after Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, who inherited a house near here from his uncle Thomas Audley, who had gained the land following the Dissolution of the Monasteries^[181][182]
• Dunster Court – corruption of St Dunstan's Court, as it lay in the parish of St Dunstan-in-the-East^[181]
• Dyer's Buildings – after almshouses owned by the Worshipful Company of Dyers formerly located here^[183]

• Eastcheap – as it was the eastern end of the former Cheapside market^[184][183]
• East Harding Street and West Harding Street – after local 16th-century property owner Agnes Harding, who bequeathed the surrounding area to the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths for the upkeep of widows^[185][186]
• East Passage – presumably descriptive
• East Poultry Avenue and West Poultry Avenue – after the meat trade here at Smithfield Market^[187]
• Eldon Street – after John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor in the early 19th century, or a tavern named after him^[188][189]
• Elm Court – after the elm trees in the Temple Gardens^[190][191]
• Essex Court – presumably after the earls of Essex, who owned a townhouse near here (hence the nearby Essex Street)^[192][193]
• Exchange Arcade, Exchange Place and Exchange Square

• Falcon Court – after a former inn or shop of this name^[194][195]
• Falcon Highwalk
• Fann Street – thought to be named after a local property owner or tradesman of this name^[196][197]
• Farringdon Street – from Sir William or Nicholas de Farnedon/Faringdon, local sheriffs or aldermen in the 13th century^{[198][199][200]}
• Fen Court, Fenchurch Avenue, Fenchurch Buildings, Fenchurch Place and Fenchurch Street – after a fen which was formerly located near here, and possibly the former St Gabriel Fenchurch^{[198][201][202]}
• Fetter Lane and New Fetter Lane – formerly Fewter Lane, a Medieval term for an idler,^[198][203] stemming originally from the Old French faitour ('lawyer')^[204]
• Finch Lane – after Robert Fink (some sources: Aelfwin Finnk), who paid for the rebuilding of the former St Benet Fink Church in the 13th century; the church was destroyed in the 1666 Fire, and its replacement demolished in the 1840s^[205][206]
• Finsbury Avenue, Finsbury Avenue Square, Finsbury Circus – after a Saxon burgh (settlement) owned by someone called Finn^{[205][199][207]}
• Fish Street Hill, Fish Wharf and Old Fish Street Hill – after the former local fish trade here, centred on Billingsgate Fish Market^{[208][209][210]}
• Fishmongers Hall Wharf – after the adjacent Fishmongers' Hall^[205]
• Fleet Place, Fleet Street and Old Fleet Lane – after the now covered river Fleet which flowed near here^{[211][212][213]}
• Fore Street and Fore Street Avenue – named after its location in front of the City walls^{[214][215][216]}
• Fort Street – after the former armoury and artillery grounds located near here^[214]
• Foster Lane – corruption of Vedast, after the adjacent St Vedast Church^{[214][217][183]}
• Founders' Court – after the Worshipful Company of Founders, who were formerly based here^[218][219]
• Fountain Court – after the 17th-century fountain located here^[219]
• Frederick's Place – after John Frederick, Lord Mayor of London in 1661^[220][219]
• French Ordinary Court – former site of an 'ordinary' (cheap eating place) for the local French community in the 17th century^[220][221]
• Friar Street – after the former Dominican friary that stood here 1276–1538^[220][222]
• Friday Street – after the former local fish trade here, with reference to the popularity of fish on this day owing to the Catholic Friday Fast; the street formerly extended all the way to Cheapside^{[223][224][222]}
• Frobisher Crescent – after the explorer Martin Frobisher, who is buried in the nearby St Giles-without-Cripplegate
• Fruiterers Passage – after the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers, formerly based here^[225]
• Furnival Street – after the nearby Furnival's Inn, owned by Sir Richard Furnival in the late 1500s^[226][227]
• Fye Foot Lane – corruption of five foot, after its original breadth; formerly Finamour Lane, after an individual with this surname^[228][229]

• Garden Court – after the adjacent Temple Gardens^[230]
• Gardner's Lane – unknown, though thought to be after a local property owner; formerly called Dunghill Lane in the 18th century^[231][230]
• Garlick Hill – as it led to the former Garlick Hythe, a wharf where garlic was unloaded from ships^[232][230]
• George Yard – after the adjacent George and Vulture pub,^[233] or another pub of this name formerly located here^[234]
• Giltspur Street – thought to be the former location of a spurriers^{[235][236][237]}
• Gloucester Court
• Godliman Street – thought to be after Godalming, Surrey, a family bearing this name, or the selling of godalmins (a type of skin/leather); it was formerly Paul's Chain, after the chain placed here to prevent access to St Paul's churchyard^[238][239]
• Golden Lane – formerly Goldynglane, thought to be after a local property owner of the name Golding/Golda^[238][239]
• Goldsmith Street – after the nearby Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths^[240][241]
• Goodman's Court and Goodman's Yard – thought to be after the Goodman family, local farmers in the 16th century^[240][242]
• Gophir Lane – formerly Gofaire Lane, thought to be for Elias Gofaire, 14th-century property owner^[243][244]
• Goring Street – unknown; prior to 1885 known as Castle Court, after a former inn^[243]
• Goswell Road – there is dispute over the origins of the name, with some sources claiming the road was named after a nearby garden called 'Goswelle' or 'Goderell' which belonged to Robert de Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk,^[245] whilst others state it derives from God's Well, and the traditional pagan practice of well-worship,^[246] and others a 'Gode Well' formerly located here^[247]
• Gough Square – after Richard Gough, wool merchant, local landowners in the early 1700s^[243][247]
• Gracechurch Street – formerly Garscherch Street, Grass Church Street and Gracious Street, presumably after a local church (mostly likely St Benet Gracechurch and/or grassy area^{[248][249][250]}
• Grand Avenue – presumably descriptive^[251]
• Grant's Quay Wharf
• Gravel Lane – descriptive, after its gravelly texture^[252][253]
• Great Bell Alley – formerly just Bell Alley, it was named for a former inn^[252][254]
• Great Eastern Walk (Liverpool Street station) – presumably descriptive, or after the Great Eastern Railway company
• Great New Street, Little New Street, Middle New Street, New Street Court, New Street Square – built in the mid-1600s, and named simply as they were then new^[255][186]
• Great St Helen's and St Helen's Place – after the adjacent St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate and former priory here of the same name^[256][257]
• Great St Thomas Apostle – after the St Thomas the Apostle church, destroyed in the Great Fire^[256][257]
• Great Swan Alley – after a former inn here called The White Swan^[258][259]
• Great Tower Street – after the adjacent Tower of London^[258][259]
• Great Trinity Lane, Little Trinity Lane and Trinity Lane – after the former Holy Trinity the Less church, demolished 1871^[258][259]
• Great Winchester Street – following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the nearby Austin Friars was acquired by Sir William Powlet, Lord Treasurer; his son Lord Winchester renamed it for himself^[258]
• Green Arbour Court – thought to be from a 17th-century inn^[258]
• The Green Yard
• Gresham Street – after Thomas Gresham, merchant and founder the Royal Exchange; the western part of this street was formerly known as Lad Lane, and the eastern part Cat Eaton Street (named literally after the cats here); they were amalgamated in 1845^{[260][261][262]}
• Greyfriars Passage – after the Franciscan order, also known as the Grey friars, who owned land here in the Middle Ages^[263][264]
• Greystoke Place – after a local 18th-century property owner of this name; prior to this it was Black Raven Alley, after a local inn^[265][264]
• Grocer's Hall Court and Grocer's Hall Gardens – after the adjacent Worshipful Company of Grocers^[264]
• Groveland Court
• Guildhall Buildings and Guildhall Yard – after the adjacent Guildhall^[266]
• Guinness Court
• Gunpowder Square
• Gutter Lane – corruption of Guthrun/Godrun, thought to be after an early Danish landowner^[267][268]

• Half Moon Court – after a former inn of this name^[269][268]
• Hammett Street – after its 18th-century builder Benjamin Hammett, also Lord Mayor of London in 1797^[270]
• Hanging Sword Alley – thought to be after a former inn, shop or fencing school of this name^[269][271]
• Hanseatic Walk – presumably in reference to Hanseatic League
• Hare Place – after Hare House which formerly stood here; formerly Ram Alley, a noted criminal area, prompting the name change^[259]
• Harp Alley – thought to be after a former 17th-century inn of this name^[272][273]
• Harp Lane – after the Harp brewhouse which formerly stood here^{[272][51][273]}
• Harrow Place – thought to be named for a harrow-making shop formerly located here after a former inn of this name^[274][275]
• Hart Street – unknown, formerly Herthstrete and Hertstrete, possibly after the hearthstone trade here^{[276][236][275]}
• Hartshorn Alley – after the Hart's Horn inn which formerly stood here^[276][277]
• Haydon Street and Haydon Walk – after John Heydon, Master of the Ordnance 1627–42, who lived near here^[278][277]
• Hayne Street – after Haynes timber merchants and carpenters, who owned a shop here after a former inn of this name^[278][279]
• Hen and Chicken Court – after former inn(s) here of this name^[280]
• Heneage Lane and Heneage Place – after Thomas Heneage, who acquired a house here after the dissolution of the nearby abbey^[281][55]
• High Holborn, Holborn, Holborn Circus and Holborn Viaduct – thought to be from hollow bourne, i.e. the river Fleet which formerly flowed in a valley near here. The High stems from the fact that rode led away from the river to higher ground. Circus is a British term for a road junction, and viaduct is a self-explanatory term.^{[282][283][284]}
• High Timber Street – after a former timber hythe (wharf), recorded here from the late 13th century^{[285][286][287]}
• Hind Court
• Hogarth Court – the artist William Hogarth formerly lodged here at a local tavern^[288][289]
• Honey Lane – after honey that was formerly sold here as art of the Cheapside market^{[290][291][292]}
• Hood Court
• Hope Square
• Hosier Lane – after the former hosiery trade based here^{[293][294][295]}
• Houndsditch – generally thought to be literally after a local ditch where dead dogs were dumped;^[296] however, others think it may refer to a nearby kennels^{[293][297][298]}
• Huggin Court and Huggin Hill – formerly Hoggen Lane, as hogs were kept here^{[299][292][298]}
• Hutton Street

• Idol Lane – formerly Idle Lane, it may be a personal name or denote local idlers^[300][301]
• India Street – after the former warehouses here of the East India Company; prior to 1913 it was George Street^[300][302]
• Inner Temple Lane – after the adjacent Inner Temple^[303]
• Ireland Yard – after haberdasher William Ireland, who owned a house here in the 1500s^[304][305]
• Ironmonger Lane – an ancient name, after the former ironmongery trade here^{[304][306][305]}

• Jewry Street – after the former Jewish community which was based here; formerly Poor Jewry Street^{[307][308][309][310]}
• John Carpenter Street – after John Carpenter, Town Clerk of London in the mid-15th century^[307][311]
• John Milton Passage – after the author John Milton
• John Trundle Highwalk – after John Trundle, 16th–17th-century author and book seller
• John Wesley Highwalk – after John Wesley, founder of Methodism
• Johnsons Court – after a local 16th-century property owning family of this name; the connection with Samuel Johnson is coincidental^[284][311]

• Keats Place
• Kennett Wharf Lane – after its late 18th-century owner^[312]
• Kinghorn Street – formerly King Street, renamed in 1885 to avoid confusion with many other streets of this name^[309][313]
• Kingscote Street – formerly King Edward Street (for Edward VI), renamed in 1885 to avoid confusion with the street of this name off Newgate Street^[309][313]
• King Street – built after the Great Fire and named for Charles II^[314][315]
• King Edward Street – named for Edward VI, who turned the adjacent Greyfriars monastery into a hospital; it was formerly known as Stinking Lane^{[309][316][313]}
• King William Street – named for William IV, reigning monarch when the street was built in 1829–1835^{[317][316][315]}
• King's Arms Yard – named after a former inn of this name^[309][315]
• King's Bench Walk – named for the adjacent housing for lawyers of the King's Bench^[309][318]
• Knightrider Court and Knightrider Street – thought to be literally a street where knights used to ride^{[319][320][321]}

• Lakeside Terrace – descriptive
• Lambert Jones Mews – after Lambert Jones, Victorian-era councilman
• Lambeth Hill – corruption of Lambert/Lambart, local property owner^{[322][323][324]}
• Langthorn Court – named after a former property owner of this name^[325]
• Lauderdale Place – named for the Earls of Lauderdale, who owned a house here^[326]
• Laurence Pountney Hill and Laurence Pountney Lane – after the former St Laurence Pountney church, built by Sir John de Pulteney but destroyed in the Great Fire^{[327][328][329]}
• Lawrence Lane – after the nearby St Lawrence Jewry church^{[330][217][331]}
• Leadenhall Market, Leadenhall Place and Leadenhall Street – after the Leaden Hall, a house owned by Sir Hugh Neville in the 14th century^{[332][142][333]}
• Lime Street – Medieval name denoting a place of lime kilns^{[334][335][336]}
• Limeburner Lane – after the lime-burning trade formerly located here^[306]
• Lindsey Street – unknown^[336]
• Little Britain – thought to be after Robert le Bretoun, 13th-century local landowner, probably from Brittany^{[334][337][338]}
• Little Somerset Street
• Liverpool Street – built in 1829 and named for Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister 1812–1827^[339][340]
• Lloyd's Avenue – as the headquarters of the Lloyd's Register (named for Lloyd's Coffee House) were located here^[341]
• Lombard Court and Lombard Lane – from Lombardy, as this area was home to a community from there; the name was altered from Lombard Street to avoid confusion with the other street of this name^[342][343]
• Lombard Street – from the wool merchants from Lombardy who traded and lent money here from the 13th century onwards^{[342][344][343]}
• London Bridge – self-explanatory; for centuries this was the only bridge crossing the Thames^[345]
• London Street and New London Street – named after local 18th-century property owner John London, and possibly the city itself; the 'New' section was a later extension^[329][345]
• London Wall – after the city wall which formerly ran along this route (though there are still some ruins visible)^{[346][347][345]}
• Long Lane – a descriptive name^[348][345]
• Lothbury – meaning 'burgh of Lotha/Hlothere', a 7th-century name^{[349][90][350]}
• Lovat Street – thought to be either a corruption of Lucas Lane, after a local landowner, or for Lord Lovat, local politician; it was formerly Love Lane, probably a euphemism for prostitution, and changed to avoid confusion with the other city lane of this name^[351][350]
• Love Lane – unknown, but possible with reference to the prostitution that occurred here in the 16th century; it was formerly Roper Lane, probably after the rope-making trade, but possibly after a person with this surname^{[351][352][350]}
• Lower Thames Street and Upper Thames Street – thought to mark the bank of the Thames in Roman/Saxon times^{[353][354][350]}
• Ludgate Broadway, Ludgate Circus, Ludgate Hill and Ludgate Square – the former city gate of this name that formerly stood here, thought to be an Old English term for 'postern-gate'^{[351][355][356]}

• Mac's Place
• Magpie Alley – after a former inn here of this name^[341][357]
• Mansell Street – named after either local landowner Sir William Leman, 2nd Baronet for his wife Mary Mansell^[358] or Mansel Leman, also a local property owner in the 17th century^[359]
• Mansion House Place and Mansion House Street – after the adjacent Mansion House^[360]
• Mark Lane – unknown, though possibly a corruption of Martha; formerly known as Martlane and Marke Lane^{[361][362][363]}
• Martin Lane – after the former St Martin Orgar church, demolished (save for the tower) in 1820^{[364][328][365][366]}
• Mason's Avenue – after the Worshipful Company of Masons, whose headquarters formerly stood here^[364]
• Middle Street – descriptive^[367]
• Middlesex Passage – formerly Middlesex Court, thought to be after Middlesex House which formerly stood here^[368]
• Middlesex Street (Petticoat Lane) and Petticoat Square – as this street forms the boundary of the city with the county of Middlesex, with the alternative name Petticoat stemming from the clothes market formerly held here; prior to 1602 it was known as Hog Lane after the animal^{[368][369][367]}
• Middle Temple Lane – after the adjacent Middle Temple^[368][367]
• Milk Street – after the milk and dairy trade that formerly occurred here in connection with the nearby Cheapside market^{[370][371][372]}
• Millennium Bridge – as it was built to commemorate the 2000 millennium
• Milton Court and Milton Street – after an early 19th-century lease owner of this name, or possibly the poet John Milton; prior to this it was Grub/Grubbe Street, after the former owner, or perhaps to a grube ('drain')^{[373][374][375]}
• Mincing Lane – after minchins/mynecen, a term for the nuns who formerly held property here prior to 1455^{[373][376][377]}
• Minerva Walk
• Miniver Place – after the type of fur, named by connection with the nearby Skinner's Hall^[378]
• Minories – after a former church/convent here of the Little Sisters (Sorores Minores) nuns^{[373][162][379]}
• Minster Court and Minster Pavement
• Mitre Square and Mitre Street – after the former Mitre Inn which stood near here^[373][277]
• Modern Court
• Monkwell Square – after the former street here also of this name, variously recorded as Mogwellestrate or Mukewellestrate, and thought to refer to a well owned by one Mucca^{[380][381][382]}
• Montague Street – after Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, who owned a mansion here^[383]
• Monument Street – after the nearby Monument to the Great Fire of London^[383][384]
• Moorfields and Moorfield Highwalk – after the marshy moorlands that formerly stood here^[383]
• Moorgate and Moorgate Place – after the gate, leading to the marshy moorlands beyond, that formerly stood here^[383][385]
• Moor Lane and Moor Place – after the marshy moorlands that formerly stood here^{[383][386][385]}
• Muscovy Street – after the Muscovy Company of Elizabethan times, or the Russian merchants formerly based here^[387][388]

• Nettleton Court
• Nevill Lane
• New Bell Yard
• New Bridge Street – named in 1765 as it leads to the then-new Blackfriars Bridge^[389][390]
• Newbury Street – formerly New Street, renamed 1890 to avoid confusion with other streets of this name^[389][391]
• Newcastle Close – either after a former inn called the Castle located here,^[389] or after the city, with reference to the coal trade here^[392]
• Newcastle Court
• New Change, New Change Passage and Old Change Court – formerly Old Change, and named for a former mint and gold exchange here^[389][393]
• New Court – built circa 1700 and named simply because it was then new^[394]
• Newgate Street – after a new gate built here in the 1000s; the eastern part of this street was formerly Bladder Street, after the bladder selling trade here^{[395][396][391]}
• Newman's Court – after Lawrence Newman, who leased land here in the 17th century^[393]
• New Street – named simply as it was new when first built^[255][391]
• New Union Street – named as it united Moor Lane and Moorfields; it was formerly Gunn Alley^[255]
• Nicholas Lane and Nicholas Passage – after the former St Nicholas Acons church, destroyed in the Great Fire^{[255][397][398]}
• Noble Street – after Thomas de Noble, local 14th-century property developer^[399][398]
• Northumberland Alley – after Northumberland House, house of the Earls of Northumberland, which formerly stood here^[400][401]
• Norton Folgate – the former word a corruption of North Town, and the latter after the local Folgate family^[400]
• Norwich Street – unknown; formerly Norwich Court, and prior to that Magpie Yard, probably from a local inn^[401]
• Nun Court – thought to be after a local builder/property owner^[402]

• Oat Lane – as oats were formerly sold here in the Middle Ages^{[403][292][404]}
• Octagon Arcade (Broadgate)
• Old Bailey – after a bailey fortification that formerly stood here^{[83][405][404]}
• Old Billingsgate Walk – after the former watergate of this name, the derivation of Billings is unknown^[58]
• Old Jewry – after a Saxon-era settlement of Jews here, thought to be termed Old following the Edict of Expulsion of all Jews from England by Edward I^{[406][308][407]}
• Old Mitre Court – after a former tavern of this name here^[406][407]
• Old Seacole Lane – thought to be after the coal trade that came from the sea and up the river Fleet here^{[408][409][410]}
• Old Watermen's Walk
• Outwich Street – after either Oteswich/Ottewich, meaning 'Otho's dwelling', a name for this area of London in the early Middle Ages^[411] or the former St Martin Outwich church, named for the Outwich family, demolished 1874^[412]
• Oystergate Walk – after a watergate here, and the oyster trade^[413]
• Oxford Court – after a former house here owned by the Earls of Oxford^[411][414]

• Pageantmaster Court
• Pancras Lane – after St Pancras, Soper Lane church which stood here until destroyed in the Great Fire; it was formerly Needlers Lane, after the needle making trade here^{[415][306][416]}
• Panyer Alley – after a Medieval brewery here called the panyer (basket)^{[415][417][418]}
• Paternoster Lane, Paternoster Row and Paternoster Square – after the paternoster (rosary) makers who formerly worked here^{[419][420][421]}
• Paul's Walk
• Pemberton Row – after James Pemberton, Lord Mayor of London in 1611^[422]
• Pepys Street – after 17th-century diarist Samuel Pepys, who lived and worked here^[423][424]
• Peterborough Court – after the abbots of Peterborough, who prior to the Dissolution of the Monasteries had a house here^[425][426]
• Peter's Hill – after St Peter, Paul's Wharf church, which formerly stood here until destroyed in the 1666 fire^[425][426]
• Petty Wales – unknown, but possibly after a Welsh community formerly based here^[427]
• Philpot Lane – commemorates prominent local family the Philpots; originally probably after John Philpot, 14th-century grocer^{[428][429][430]}
• Pilgrim Street – thought to be a former route for pilgrims to St Paul's Cathedral; formerly known as Stonecutters Alley and Little Bridge Street^[431]
• Pindar Street – after Paul Pindar, 14th–16th-century diplomat, who had a house here^[432][431]
• Pinner's Passage
• Plaisterers Highwalk – after the nearby Worshipful Company of Plaisterers
• Plantation Lane
• Playhouse Yard – after the Blackfriars Playhouse, which stood here in the 17th century^[41][433]
• Pleydell Court and Pleydell Street – formerly Silver Street, it was renamed in 1848 by association with the neighbouring Bouverie Street; the Bouverie family were by this time known as the Pleydell-Bouveries^[41][72]
• Plough Court – thought to be either from an inn of this name, or an ironmongers; formerly Plough Yard^[41]
• Plough Place – after the Plough/Plow, a 16th-century eating place located here^[41][433]
• Plumtree Court – thought to be after either literally a plumtree, or else an inn of this name^[41][433]
• Pope's Head Alley – after the Pope's Head Tavern which formerly stood here, thought to stem from the 14th-century Florentine merchants who were in Papal service^[434][435]
• Poppins Court – shortening of Popinjay Court, meaning a parrot; it is thought to stem from the crest of Cirencester Abbey (which featured the bird), who owned a town house here^[436][437]
• Portsoken Street – after port-soke, as it was a soke near a port (gate) of the City^[438][439]
• Post Office Court – after the General Post Office which formerly stood near here^[438][440]
• Poultry – after the poultry which was formerly sold at the market here^{[438][441][442]}
• Priest's Court – with allusion to the adjacent St Vedast Church^[443]
• Primrose Hill – thought to be named after a builder of this name, or possibly the primroses which formerly grew here; formerly called Salisbury Court, as it approaches Salisbury Square^[444][443]
• Primrose Street – thought to be named after a builder of this name, or possibly the primroses which formerly grew here^[444][443]
• Prince's Street – named in reference to the adjacent King and Queen Streets^[445][446]
• Printers Inn Court – after the printing industry which formerly flourished here
• Printer Street – after the printing industry which formerly flourished here^[447][446]
• Priory Court
• Prudent Passage
• Pudding Lane – from the former term pudding meaning animals' entrails, which were dumped here in Medieval times by local butchers; it was formerly Rothersgate, after a watergate located here^{[447][448][449]}
• Puddle Dock – thought to be either descriptive (after the water here), or named for a local wharf owner of this name^[450][451]
• Pump Court – after a former pump located here^[451]

• Quaggy Walk
• Quality Court – a descriptive name, as it was superior when built compared with the surrounding streets^[452]
• Queenhithe – formerly Ethelredshythe, after its founder King Æthelred the Unready, and hythe, meaning 'a wharf/landing place'; it was renamed after its later owner Matilda of Scotland, wife of Henry I^[453][454]
• Queen Isabella Way –
• Queens Head Passage – after a former house here called the Queens Head, demolished 1829^[455]
• Queen Street and Queen Street Place – named in honour of Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II^{[455][316][456]}
• Queen Victoria Street – built in 1871 and named for the then reigning monarch^{[457][316][454]}

• Rangoon Street – after the former warehouses here of the East India Company, Burma then been part of British India^[300][458]
• Red Lion Court – after a former inn of this name^[459][460]
• Regent Street – after the Prince Regent
• Rising Sun Court – after the adjacent pub of this name^[461]
• Robin Hood Court – thought to be after a former inn of this name^[462]
• Rolls Buildings and Rolls Passage – the former site of a house containing the rolls of Chancery^[463][464]
• Rood Lane – after a former rood (cross) set up at St Margaret Pattens in the early 16th century; it became an object of veneration and offering, which helped pay for the repair of the church, but was torn down in 1558 as an item of excessive superstition^{[465][466][467]}
• Ropemaker Street – descriptive, after the rope making trade formerly located here^[465][467]
• Rose Alley – after a former inn of this name^[468]
• Rose and Crown Court
• Rose Street – after a former tavern of this name here; it was formerly Dicer Lane, possibly after either a dice maker here, or a corruption of ditcher^[469]
• Royal Exchange Avenue and Royal Exchange Buildings – after the adjacent Royal Exchange^[470]
• Russia Row – possibly to commemorate Russia's entry into the Napoleonic wars^[471]

• St Alphage Garden and St Alphage Highwalk – after the adjacent St Alphege London Wall church, now surviving only in ruins^[472][473]
• St Andrew Street – after the adjacent St Andrew's Church^[473]
• St Andrew's Hill – after the adjacent St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe church^[473]
• St Benet's Place – after the former St Benet Gracechurch which stood near here; destroyed in the Great Fire, its replacement was then demolished in 1868^[81][247]
• St Botolph Row and St Botolph Street – after the adjacent St Botolph's Aldgate church
• St Clare Street – after a former church/convent here of the Little Sisters of St Clare^[474][379]
• St Dunstan's Alley, St Dunstan's Hill and St Dunstan's Lane – after the former St Dunstan-in-the-East church, largely destroyed in the Blitz and now a small garden^[217][475]
• St Dunstan's Court – after the nearby St Dunstan-in-the-West church^[475]
• St Georges Court – after the former St George Botolph Lane church nearby, demolished in 1904
• St Giles Terrace – after the adjacent St Giles-without-Cripplegate church
• St James's Passage – after St James Duke's Place church, demolished 1874^[476]
• St Katherine's Row – after the St Katherine Coleman church, demolished in 1926^[477][478]
• St Margaret's Close – after the adjacent St Margaret Lothbury church
• St Martin's le Grand – after a former church of this name here, demolished in 1538^{[479][480][481]}
• St Mary at Hill – after the St Mary-at-Hill church here^{[482][483][484]}
• St Mary Axe – after the former Church of St Mary Axe here, demolished in the 1500s^{[482][480][484]}
• St Michael's Alley – after the adjacent St Michael, Cornhill church^[484]
• St Mildred's Court – after the former St Mildred, Poultry church, demolished 1872^[482][484]
• St Olave's Court – after the former St Olave Old Jewry church here, of which only the tower remains^[485][484]
• St Paul's Churchyard – after the adjacent St Paul's Cathedral; the churchyard was formerly far more extensive, but has since been built over^[486][487]
• St Peter's Alley – after the adjacent St Peter upon Cornhill church^[487]
• St Swithins Lane – after the former St Swithin, London Stone, largely destroyed in the Blitz and later demolished^{[488][397][489]}
• Salisbury Court and Salisbury Square – after the London house of the bishops of Salisbury, located here prior to the Reformation^[490][491]
• Salters Court – after the former hall of the Worshipful Company of Salters, moved in 1600^[490][414]
• Salter's Hall Court – after the former hall of the Worshipful Company of Salters, destroyed in the Blitz^[490][414]
• Sandy's Row – after a builder or property owner of this name^[492]
• Saracens Head Yard – after a former inn of this name^[492][493]
• Savage Gardens – after Thomas Savage, who owned a house here in the 1620s^[494][493]
• Scott's Lane
• Seething Lane – formerly Shyvethenestrat and Sivethenelane, deriving from Old English sifetha, meaning 'chaff/siftings', after the local corn threshing^{[495][496][497]}
• Serjeants Inn – after the former Serjeant's Inn located here before the Blitz^[498][497]
• Sermon Lane – thought to be after Adam la Sarmoner, 13th-century landowner^{[498][499][500]}
• Shafts Court – named after a maypole (or 'shaft') that formerly stood nearby at the junction of Leadenhall Street and St Mary Axe^[501]
• Sherborne Lane – earlier Shirebourne Lane, alteration of the Medieval Shitteborelane, in reference to a public privy here^{[502][503][504]}
• Ship Tavern Passage – after the nearby Ship tavern^[505]
• Shoe Lane – as this lane formerly led to a shoe-shaped landholding/field^{[506][507][505]}
• Shorter Street
• Silk Street – thought to be named for its late 18th-century builder, or the silk trade formerly located here^[508][509]
• Sise Lane – as it formerly led to St Benet Sherehog church, which was dedicated to St Osyth (later corrupted to Sythe, then Sise)^{[508][397][509]}
• Skinners Lane – after the fur trade that was former prevalent here; it was formerly Maiden Lane, after a local inn or shop^{[508][510][378]}
• Smithfield Street and West Smithfield – derives from the Old English 'smooth-field', a series of fields outside the City walls^{[511][378][378]}
• Snow Hill and Snow Hill Court – formerly Snore Hill or Snowrehill, exact meaning unknown^{[511][512][513]}
• Southampton Buildings – after Southampton House which formerly stood here, built for the bishops of Lincoln in the 12th century and later acquired by the earls of Southampton^[511]
• South Place and South Place Mews – named as it is south of Moorfields^[514][515]
• Southwark Bridge – as it leads to Southwark^[516]
• Speed Highwalk – after John Speed, Stuart-era mapmaker, who is buried in the nearby St Giles-without-Cripplegate
• Staining Lane – from Saxon-era Staeninga haga, meaning place owned by the people of Staines^{[517][518][519]}
• Staple Inn and Staple Inn Buildings – after the adjacent Staple Inn^[510][519]
• Star Alley – after a former inn here of this name^[520]
• Stationer's Hall Court – after the adjacent hall of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers^[521][522]
• Steelyard Passage – after the Hanseatic League Base, now under Cannon St. Station
• Stew Lane – after a former stew (hot bath) here^[523][520]
• Stonecutter Street – after the former stonecutting trade that took place here^[524][522]
• Stone House Court – after a former medieval building here called the Stone House^[522]
• Stoney Lane – simply a descriptive name, streets typically being mud tracks in former times^[525][522]
• Suffolk Lane – after a former house here belonging to the dukes of Suffolk^{[526][527][528]}
• Sugar Bakers Court – presumably descriptive
• Sugar Quay Walk – presumably descriptive
• Sun Court
• Sun Street and Sun Street Passage – after a former inn of this name^[526]
• Swan Lane – after a former inn here called the Olde Swanne; formerly Ebbgate, after a watergate here^[529][178]
• Swedeland Court – after the former Swedish community based here^[530][529]

• Talbot Court – after a former inn of this name (or Tabard)^[531][530]
• Tallis Street – after the 16th-century composer Thomas Tallis, by connection with the adjacent former Guildhall School of Music and Drama^[532][533]
• Telegraph Street – renamed (from Bell Alley, after a former inn) when the General Post Office's telegraph department opened there^{[534][519][535]}
• Temple Avenue and Temple Lane – after the adjacent Temple legal district^[534][536]
• The Terrace (off King's Bench Walk) – presumably descriptive
• Thavies Inn – after a house here owned by the armourer Thomas (or John) Thavie in the 14th century^[537][538]
• Thomas More Highwalk – after 16th-century author and statesman Thomas More
• Threadneedle Street and Threadneedle Walk – originally Three Needle Street, after the sign on a needle shop located here, later corrupted due to the obvious collocation of 'thread' and 'needle'^{[539][540][541]}
• Three Barrels Walk
• Three Cranes Walk
• Three Nun Court
• Three Quays Walk
• Throgmorton Avenue and Throgmorton Street – after 16th-century diplomat Nicholas Throckmorton; the Avenue was built in 1876^{[539][316][541]}
• Tokenhouse Yard – after a 17th-century token house here (a house selling tokens during coin shortages)^[542][543]
• Took's Court – after local 17th-century builder/owner Thomas Tooke^[542][544]
• Tower Hill Terrace – after the adjacent Tower Hill^[545][546]
• Tower Royal – after a former Medieval tower and later royal lodging house that stood here; Royal is in fact a corruption of La Réole, France, where local wine merchants hailed from^[545][546]
• Trig Lane – after one of several people with the surname Trigge, recorded here in the Middle Ages^[527]
• Trinity Square – after the adjacent Trinity House^[547][548]
• Trump Street – unknown, but thought to be after either a local builder or property owner^[547] or the local trumpet-making industry^[548]
• Tudor Street – after the Tudor dynasty, with reference to Henry VIII's nearby Bridewell Palace^[547][549]
• Turnagain Lane – descriptive, as it is a dead-end; recorded in the 13th century as Wendageyneslane^{[550][551][549]}

• Undershaft – named after a maypole (or 'shaft') that formerly stood nearby at the junction of Leadenhall Street and St Mary Axe^[501][552]
• Union Court – named as when built it connected Wormwood Street to Old Broad Street^[553]

• Victoria Avenue – named in 1901 in honour of Queen Victoria^[554][33]
• Victoria Embankment – after Queen Victoria, reigning queen at the time of the building of the Thames Embankment^[554][33]
• Vine Street – formerly Vine Yard, unknown but thought to be ether from a local inn or a vineyard^[554][555]
• Vintners Court – after the adjacent Worshipful Company of Vintners building; the area has been associated with the wine trade as far back as the 10th century^[556][555]
• Viscount Street – formerly Charles Street, both names after the Charles Egerton, Viscount Brackley, of which there were three in the 17th–18th centuries^[557][558]

• Waithman Street – after Robert Waithman, Lord Mayor of London 1823–1833^[559][560]
• Walbrook and Walbrook Wharf – after the Walbrook stream which formerly flowed here, possibly with reference to the Anglo-Saxon wealh meaning 'foreigner' (i.e. the native Britons, or 'Welsh')^{[561][562][563]}
• Wardrobe Place and Wardrobe Terrace – after the Royal Wardrobe which formerly stood here until destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666^[564][565]
• Warwick Lane, Warwick Passage and Warwick Square – after the Neville family, earls of Warwick, who owned a house near here in the 1400s; formerly Old Dean's Lane, after a house here resided in by the Dean of St Paul's^{[566][567][568]}
• Watergate – after a watergate which stood here on the Thames^[566][568]
• Water Lane – after a former watergate that stood here by the Thames; formerly Spurrier Lane^[569]
• Watling Court and Watling Street – corrupted from the old name of Athelingestrate (Saxon Prince Street), by association with the more famous Roman Watling Street^{[566][570][571]}
• Well Court – after the numerous wells formerly located in this area^[572]
• Whalebone Court
• Whitecross Place
• Whitecross Street – after a former white cross which stood near here in the 1200s^[107][573]
• Whitefriars Street – after the Carmelite order (known as the White friars), who were granted land here by Edward I^[107][573]
• White Hart Court – after a former inn of this name^[107][574]
• White Hart Street
• White Horse Yard – after a former inn of this name^[575][573]
• White Kennett Street – after White Kennett, rector of St Botolph's Aldgate in the early 1700s^[575][573]
• White Lion Court – after a former inn of this name, destroyed by fire in 1765^[575][573]
• White Lion Hill – this formerly led to White Lion Wharf, which is thought to have been named after a local inn^[575]
• White Lyon Court
• Whittington Avenue – after Richard Whittington, former Lord Mayor of London^[575][576]
• Widegate Street – thought to be after a gate that formerly stood on this street; formerly known as Whitegate Alley^[577][578]
• Willoughby Highwalk – presumably after Sir Francis Willoughby, who is buried in the nearby St Giles-without-Cripplegate Church
• Wilson Street
• Wine Office Court – after an office here that granted licenses to sell wine in the 17th century^[579][580]
• Wood Street – as wood and fire logs were sold here as part of the Cheapside market^{[581][396][582]}
• Wormwood Street – after the wormwood formerly grown here for medicine^[101][583]
• Wrestler's Court – after a former Tudor-era house here of this name^[583]

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