Street names of Clerkenwell and Finsbury

This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London districts of Clerkenwell and Finsbury, in the London Borough of Islington. The Clerkenwell/Finsbury area has no formally defined boundaries - those used here are: Pentonville Road to the north, Goswell Road to the east, Clerkenwell Road to the south and Gray’s Inn Road to the west. Finsbury was traditionally roughly the northern part of the area covered here, however in practice the name is rarely used these days.

• Acton Street – after Acton Meadow which formerly occupied this site[1][2]
• Agdon Street – after local landowners (dating back to the 17th century) the Compton family, earls and later marquises of Northampton, who owned a property called Agdon in Warwickshire[3][4]
• Albermarle Way – after Elizabeth, Dowager Duchess of Albermarle, who lived at Newcastle House nearby in the 18th century[5]
• Ampton Place and Ampton Street – after its builder the 3rd Lord Calthorpe, who owned land at Ampton, Suffolk[6][2]
• Amwell Street – after the nearby New River, which starts at Amwell, Hertfordshire[7][8]
• Arlington Way – unknown; before 1936 called Arlington Street[9][10]
• Ashby Street – after local landowners (dating back to the 17th century) the Compton family, earls and later marquises of Northampton, who had a seat at Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire[11][4]
• Attneave Street – thought to be named after A Attneave, local builder in the 1890s[12][13]
• Aylesbury Street – after the earl of Aylesbury, who owned a house near here in the 17th century[12][14]
• Back Hill – as it lies off (or to the 'back') of a main road[14]
• Baker’s Row and Baker’s Yard – after Richard Baker, a local 18th century carpenter[15][16]
• Bath Yard
• Berry Place and Berry Street – after Thomas Berry, local early 19th century landowner[17][18]
• Bevin Way – after prominent Labour politician Ernest Bevin[19][20]
• Bowling Green Lane – after the former Bowling Green House on this site, demolished 1933. The house had been built over an old bowling green which dated back to the 18th century[21][22]
• Brewhouse Yard – after a former brewery on this site[23][24]
• Britannia Street – built in the 1760s and named to suggest patriotism[25][26]
• Calthorpe Street – after Henry Gough-Calthorpe, 1st Baron Calthorpe, local 18th century landowner, and his descendants who developed the local street plan[27][2]
• Catherine Griffiths Court – after Catherine Griffiths (1885-1988), a suffragette, founder of the Finsbury Women's Committee in the 1920s, and mayor of Finsbury in 1960[28]
• Chadwell Street – after Chadwell Spring in Amwell, Hertfordshire, source of the nearby New River, or possibly William Chadwell Mylne[29][8]
• Claremont Close and Claremont Square – after the nearby Claremont Chapel on Pentonville Road (now the Crafts Council), which was named after Claremont, Surrey, the country house of the recently deceased Princess Charlotte of Wales[30][31]
• Clerkenwell Close, Clerkenwell Green and Clerkenwell Road – from a local well (‘the clerk’s well), which gave its name to the area[32][33]
• Coldbath Square – after a former cold spring on this site that was used for medicinal purposes in the 17th – 18th centuries[34][35]
• Coley Street
• Compton Passage and Compton Street – after local landowners (dating back to the 17th century) the Compton family, earls and later marquises of Northampton[36][4]
• Corporation Row – after the former New Corporation Work House, built here in the 1660s; prior to this it was known as Cut Throat Lane[37][38]
• Crawford Passage – after Peter Crawford, landlord of a former pub here called the Pickled Egg; the passage was formerly Pickled Egg Walk[39][40]
• Cruickshank Street – after George Cruikshank, 19th century illustrator who lived on nearby Amwell Street[41][42]
• Cubitt Street – after the prominent 19th century builder Thomas Cubitt, who built this street; it was formerly called Arthur Street[41][43]
• Cumberland Gardens – unknown; prior to 1929 this was Cumberland Terrace[44][45]
• Cyrus Street – possibly after the Persian King of this name; prior to 1880 it was called King Street[46][47]
• Dabbs Lane
• Dallington Street – after Robert Dallington, master of the Charterhouse in the 1620s[48][49]
• Earlstoke Street – corruption of Erlestoke: local landowner Charles Compton, 1st Marquess of Northampton married in 1787 Maria Smith, daughter of Joshua Smith MP, of Erlestoke Park, Wiltshire[50][51][4]
• Easton Street – after local landowners (dating back to the 17th century) the Compton family, earls and later marquises of Northampton, who owned property in Easton Maudit, Northamptonshire[52][4]
• Elm Street – possibly for the former elm trees located here[53]
• Exmouth Market – after Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, prominent 18th – 19th century naval officer[54][55]
• Eyre Street Hill – unknown; formerly called Little Bath Street[56][55]
• Farringdon Lane and Farringdon Road – from Sir William or Nicholas de Farnedon/Faringdon, local sheriffs or aldermen in the 13th century[57][58][59]
• Fernsbury Street – named in 1912 after an early variant of ‘Finsbury’, former name for this area[57][60]
• Field Street – built over Battle Bridge Field,[61] or possibly after Peter Field, early 19th century builder[62]
• Fleet Square – presumably as the river Fleet flowed near here
• Frederick Street – after local landowners the Barons Calthorpe, the 4th and 5th of whom were called Frederick[63][2]
• Friend Street – after George Friend, local scarlet-dyer who founded a free clinic nearby in 1780[64][65]
• Garnault Mews and Garnault Street – after Samuel Garnault, 18th century treasurer of the New River Company[66][8]
• Gloucester Way – after Thomas Lloyd Baker, local landowner, who also owned Hardwicke Court in Gloucester[67][68]
• Goswell Place and 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,[69] whilst others state it derives from "God's Well", and the traditional pagan practice of well-worship.[70] or else a former 'Gode Well' located here[2]
• Gough Street – after Richard Gough, wool merchant and local landowner in the early 18th century[71][2]
• Granville Square and Granville Street – after Granville Sharp, notable opponent of the slave trade; he was the uncle of Mary Sharp, who married local landowner Thomas Lloyd Baker[72][68]
• Gray’s Inn Road – from Lord Gray of Wilton, owner of a local inn or town house which was later leased to lawyers in the 16th century[72][73]
• Great Sutton Street and Sutton Lane – after Thomas Sutton, who founded the nearby Charterhouse School in 1611[72][49]
• Green Terrace and Green Yard – possibly after the adjacent Spa Green, or instead John Grene, Clerk to the New River Company in the late 1600s[74]
• Gwynne Place – after Nell Gwynne, mistress of Charles II, who lived near here[75][76]
• Hardwick Mews and Hardwick Street – after Thomas Lloyd Baker, local landowner, who also owned Hardwicke Court in Gloucester[67][68]
• Hayward’s Place – after James Hayward, local 19th century landowner and ironmonger[77][78]
• Herbal Hill and Herbal Place – after a former herb garden near here belonging to the Bishops of Ely, former local landowners[79][80]
• Hermit Street – after a hermitage established here in 1511 by the Monastic Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem[81][82]
• Holford Mews, Holdford Place and Holford Street – after the Holford family, who worked on the New River) scheme in the 18th century[83][8]
• Holsworthy Square –
• Ingle Mews and Inglebert Street – after William Inglebert, 17th century engineer who worked on the New River scheme[84][8]
• Jerusalem Passage – after the Monastic Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem[85][86]
• King’s Cross Bridge and Kings Cross Road – after a former statue of George IV that formerly stood near where the train station is now; the Road was formerly called Bagnigge Wells, after a tea garden of that name near here[87][88]
• Langton Close – after the Arthur Langton Nurses Home formerly located here[89]
• Laystall Street – after a former nearby laystall, a term for a refuse heap[90][91]
• Leeke Street
• Leo Yard – from the Latin for lion, as it was formerly Red Lion Yard[92]
• Lloyd’s Row, Lloyd Square, Lloyd Street and Lloyd Baker Street – after the Lloyd Baker family, local 19th century landowners[93][68]
• Lorenzo Street – unknown; formerly York Street[94][95]
• Malta Street – unknown, though probably by association with the nearby Monastic Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem (also Knights of Malta); formerly Queen Street[96][97]
• Manningford Close
• Margery Street – after a family member of local landowners (dating back to the 17th century) the Compton family, earls and later marquises of Northampton; it was formerly Margaret Street[98][4]
• Meredith Street – after John Meredith, local landowner and member of the Worshipful Company of Skinners, who owned much of the surrounding land[99][100]
• Merlin Street – after a former local pub, the New Merlin’s Cave after a local landowner of this name[99][101]
• Mount Pleasant – ironically named after a former nearby refuse tip[102][103]
• Myddelton Passage, Myddelton Square and Myddelton Street – after Hugh Myddleton, who devised the New River scheme in the early 17th century[104][8]
• Mylne Street – after Robert Mylne, who did much engineering work for the New River Company, as did his son William Chadwell Mylne[99][8]
• Naoroji Street – after Dadabhai Naoroji, who was active in local politics in the late 19th century[105]
• Newcastle Row – after Newcastle House, which formerly stood here; the house was named after its 17th century owner William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle[106]
• Northampton Road, Northampton Row and Northampton Square – after local landowners (dating back to the 17th century) the Compton family, earls and later marquises of Northampton[36][4]
• Northburgh Street – after Michael de Northburgh, a bishop who founded the nearby Charterhouse monastery in 1371[36][49]
• Owen Street and Owen’s Row – after Dame Alice Owen, who founded almshouses near here in 1609[107][82]
• Paget Street – after Sir James Paget, 19th century surgeon, who had a clinic on nearby Friend Street[6][65]
• Pakenham Street – after its builder the 3rd Lord Calthorpe, who owned land at Pakenham, Suffolk[6][2]
• Pardon Street – after the Pardon Chapel which stood near here in the Middle Ages[108][109]
• Pear Tree Court – thought to be from a local pear tree[110][111]
• Penton Rise and Pentonville Road – after Henry Penton, who developed this area in the late 18th century[112][113]
• Percival Street – after local landowners (dating back to the 17th century) the Compton family, earls and later marquises of Northampton, one of whom was a cousin of Spencer Perceval[112][4]
• Percy Circus, Percy Yard and Great Percy Street – after Robert Percy Smith, 19th century MP who was a director of the New River Company[112][8]
• Phoenix Place and Phoenix Yard – after the former Phoenix Iron Foundry near here[114][115]
• Pine Street – Wood Street prior to 1877, probably both names after an avenue of tree that formerly stood here, or possibly after Thomas Wood, 18th century leaseholder[116][117]
• Poole’s Buildings
• Prideaux Place – after Arthur R Prideaux, 19th century director of the New River Company[112][8]
• Rawstorne Place and Rawstorne Street – after local 18th century bricklayer Thomas Rawstorne[118][82]
• Ray Street and Ray Street Bridge – corruption of ‘Rag’, after the former local rag trade here; the streets was formerly two different streets – Hockley in the Hole and Town’s End Lane[118][119]
• River Passage, River Street and River Street Mews – after the nearby New River[120][8]
• Robert's Place – probably after Richard Roberts, who built much of the local area in the 1800s[121]
• Rosebery Avenue and Rosebery Square – after Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 19th century Prime Minister; he was chairman of the London County Council when this street was built in 1889[122][123]
• Rosoman Place – after Thomas Rosoman, first manager of the nearby Sadler’s Wells Theatre in the 18th century[122][124]
• Sage Way
• St Chad’s Place – after the nearby St Chad’s well, reputed to be a medieval holy well; St Chad was a 7th-century bishop[125][126]
• St Helena Street – believed to be named after St Helena, in commemoration of Napoleon’s exile there in 1815[127][128]
• St James’s Walk – after the adjacent St James's Church, Clerkenwell[33]
• St John Street and St John’s Square – after the Monastic Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, who set up their English headquarters here in the 12th century[129][86]
• Sans Walk – after Edward Sans, named in 1893 as he was then oldest member of the local parish vestry[130][131]
• Scotswood Street
• Sebastian Street – after Lewis Sebastian, former Master of the Worshipful Company of Skinners and chairman of the governors of Northampton Polytechnic (now City University)[132][100]
• Seddon Street –
• Sekforde Street – after Thomas Seckford, Elizabethan court official, who left land nearby in his will for the building of an almshouse[132][133]
• Sherston Court
• Skinner Street – after the Worshipful Company of Skinners, who owned much of the surrounding land when the street was built in the 1810s[134][135]
• Soley Mews
• Spafield Street – after a former spa on this site which closed in 1776[136][137]
• Spencer Street – after local landowners (dating back to the 17th century) the Compton family, earls and later marquises of Northampton, one of whom was cousins with Spencer Perceval[112][4]
• Summers Street
• Swinton Place and Swinton Street – after local 18th century landowner James Swinton[138][2]
• Tompion Street – after 17th century clockmaker Thomas Tompion; formerly called Smith Street[139]
• Topham Street – after local strongman Topham the Strong Man, who performed feats of strength here in the 18th century[140][141]
• Tysoe Street – after local landowners (dating back to the 17th century) the Compton family, earls and later marquises of Northampton, who owned land at Tysoe in Northamptonshire[142][4]
• Vernon Rise and Vernon Square – after Robert Vernon, 1st Baron Lyveden, 19th century director of the New River Company[112][8]
• Vine Hill and Vine Street Bridge – after the vineyards owned by the Bishops of Ely formerly located here[143]
• Vineyard Walk – after a former 18th century vineyard on this site[144][143]
• Warner Street and Warner Yard – after Robert Warner, local 18th century landowner[145][16]
• Wells Square
• Weston Rise – after John Weston, who built this road in the 1790s[146][147]
• Wharton Street – unknown[147]
• Whiskin Way – after John Whiskin, local landowner/builder in the 19th century[135][99]
• White Bear Yard
• Wicklow Street – possibly from Wicklow in Ireland[89]
• Wilmington Square and Wilmington Street – after local landowners (dating back to the 17th century) the Compton family, earls and later marquises of Northampton, who also had the title Baron Wilmington[148][4]
• Woodbridge Street – after Thomas Seckford, Elizabethan court official, who left land nearby in his will for the building of an almshouse; Sekford was born in Woodbridge, Suffolk[132][133]
• Wren Street – after prominent architect Sir Christopher Wren[149][150]
• Wyclif Street – after John Wycliffe, noted 14th century religious reformer; by association with the former nearby Smithfield Martyrs’ Memorial Church[149][151]
• Wynyatt Street – corruption of ‘Wynyates’; after local landowners (dating back to the 17th century) the Compton family, earls and later marquises of Northampton, who owned land at Compton Wynyates in Northamptonshire[149][4]
• Yardley Street – after local landowners (dating back to the 17th century) the Compton family, earls and later marquises of Northampton, one of whom was born at Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire[152][4]

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