Street names of the City of London

Etymology of London street names

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

Contents

* Top
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W

* See also
* References

## A

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* 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

## B

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* 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]

## C

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* 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]

## D

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* 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]

## E

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* 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

## F

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* 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]

## G

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* 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]

## H

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* 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

## I

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* 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]

## J

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* 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]

## K

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* 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]

## L

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* 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]

## M

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* 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]

## N

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* 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]

## O

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* 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]

## P

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* 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 Sir 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]

## Q

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* 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]

## R

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* 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]

## S

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* 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]

## T

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* 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]

## U

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* 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]

## V

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* 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]

## W

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* 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]

## See also

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* List of eponymous roads in London

## References

[edit]

Citations

1. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 1.
2. ^ a b Ekwall 1954, p. 159.
3. ^ Bebbington 1972, p. 14.
4. ^ Bebbington 1972, p. 15.
5. ^ a b Fairfield 1983, p. 2.
6. ^ Ekwall 1954, p. 81.
7. ^ a b Bebbington 1972, p. 16.
8. ^ Bebbington 1972, p. 282.
9. ^ a b Fairfield 1983, p. 5.
10. ^ Ekwall 1954, p. 195.
11. ^ a b Bebbington 1972, p. 20.
12. ^ Mills, A.D. (2010). A Dictionary of London Place-Names. Oxford University Press. p. 4\. ISBN 9780199566785.Fairfield 1983, p. 6Bebbington 1972, p. 20
13. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 6.
14. ^ Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert (1983) The London Encyclopedia. London, BCA:14
15. ^ Gillian Bebbington (1972) Street Names of London. London, Batsford: 21
16. ^ 'Aldermary Churchyard – Aldgate Ward', A Dictionary of London (1918), accessed: 21 May 2007
17. ^ Ekwall 1954, p. 90-1.
18. ^ Bebbington 1972, p. 20-1.
19. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 8.
20. ^ Bebbington 1972, p. 22.
21. ^ a b c Fairfield 1983, p. 9.
22. ^ a b Bebbington 1972, p. 23.
23. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 9-10.
24. ^ a b c Fairfield 1983, p. 10.
25. ^ a b Bebbington 1972, p. 24.
26. ^ Bebbington 1972, p. 25.
27. ^ a b Bebbington 1972, p. 27.
28. ^ a b Fairfield 1983, p. 13.
29. ^ Bebbington 1972, p. 29.
30. ^ a b Bebbington 1972, p. 30.
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* Ekwall, Eilert (1954). Street-Names of the City of London. Clarendon Press.
* Fairfield, Sheila (1983). The Streets Of London: A Dictionary Of The Names And Their Origins. Papermac. ISBN 978-0-333-28649-4.
* Bebbington, Gillian (1972). London Street Names. BT Batsford. ISBN 978-0-333-28649-4.

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