Street names of Vauxhall

This is a list of the toponymy of street names in the London district of Vauxhall. The area has no formally defined boundaries – those utilised here are Black Prince Road to the north, Kennington Road to the north-east, Kennington Park Road/Clapham Road to the south-east, Miles Street/Fentiman Road to the south, and Wandsworth Road/Nine Elms Lane/river Thames to the west.

• Albert Embankment – built in the 1860s over former marshlands, it was named for Albert, Prince Consort, husband of Queen Victoria[1][2]
• Ashmole Street – after Elias Ashmole, noted 17th century antiquarian, who lived near here[3]
• Auckland Street
• Aveline Street
• Bedser Close – presumably for Alec Bedser, widely regarded as one of the best English cricketers of the 20th century, by association with the nearby Oval Cricket Ground
• Black Prince Road – after Edward the Black Prince, son of Edward III, who owned this land[4]
• Bondway – after the late 18th century developers of this street John and Sarah Bond[5]
• Bonnington Square
• Bowling Green Street – this land was formerly a bowling green leased to the owners of the nearby Horns Tavern[6]
• Brangton Road
• Cardigan Street
• Carroun Road – after the former Carroun, or Caron, House which stood here[7]
• Citadel Place
• Clapham Road – as it leads to the south-west London area of this name
• Claylands Place and Claylands Road – after the former brick clay fields located here prior to 1800[8]
• Clayton Street – after the Clayton family, who leased much of this land from the Duchy of Cornwall from the 1660s on[8]
• Coney Way
• Cottingham Road
• Courtenay Square and Courtenay Street
• Dolland Street
• Durham Street
• Ebbisham Drive
• Elias Place
• Farnham Royal
• Fentiman Road – after local mid-19th century developer John Fentiman[9]
• Glasshouse Walk – after the former Vauxhall Glassworks here, which thrived in the 1700s[10]
• Glyn Street
• Goding Street
• Graphite Square
• Hanover Gardens
• Hansom Mews
• Harleyford Road – after local leaseholders the Claytons, whose country house was Harleyford Manor, Buckinghamshire[11]
• Harold Place
• Jonathan Street – for Jonathan Tyers and his son, managers of the nearby Vauxhall Gardens for much of the 18th century[12]
• Kennington Gardens, Kennington Oval, Kennington Park Road, Kennington Road – after the Old English Chenintune (‘settlement of Chenna’a people’);[13][14] another explanation is that it means "place of the King", or "town of the King".[15]
• Lambeth Road and South Lambeth Place – refers to a harbour where lambs were either shipped from or to. It is formed from the Old English 'lamb' and 'hythe'.[16][17][18]
• Langley Lane
• Laud Street – after William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633–45, by association with the nearby Lambeth Palace[19]
• Lawn Lane – after a former row of houses here called The Lawn, after their grass plots, demolished in 1889-90[20]
• Leopold Walk
• Lilac Place
• Loughborough Street
• Magee Street
• Meadow Mews and Meadow Road – after the former meadows here attached to Caron House[21]
• Miles Street
• Montford Place
• Newburn Street
• New Spring Gardens Walk – after the former Vauxhall Gardens here[22]
• Nine Elms Lane – after a row of nine elm trees which formerly stood along this lane[23]
• Orsett Street
• Oval Way – after the adjacent Oval Cricket Ground[13]
• Palfrey Place
• Parry Street – after Thomas Parry, 17th century statesman and owner of Copt Hall, a house near here[24]
• Pegasus Place
• Randall Road and Randall Row
• Riverside Walk – simply a descriptive name
• Rudolf Place
• St Oswald’s Place
• Salamanca Place and Salamanca Street
• Sancroft Street – after William Sancroft, 79th Archbishop of Canterbury, by association with the nearby Lambeth Palace[25]
• Stables Way
• Stanley Close
• Tinworth Street – after George Tinworth, noted ceramic artist for the Royal Doulton ceramics company at Lambeth[26]
• Trigon Road
• Tyers Street and Tyers Terrace – for Jonathan Tyers and his son, managers of the nearby Vauxhall Gardens for much of the 18th century[27]
• Vauxhall Bridge (and Bridgefoot), Vauxhall Grove, Vauxhall Street and Vauxhall Walk – from the name of Falkes de Breauté, the head of King John's mercenaries, who owned a large house in the area, which was referred to as Faulke's Hall, later Foxhall, and eventually Vauxhall; the Bridge opened in 1816[28][29][30]
• Wandsworth Road – as it led to the south-west London area of this name[31]
• Wickham Street
• Windmill Row
• Worgan Street
• Wynyard Terrace

References

Citations

1. Fairfield 1983, p. 5.
2. Bebbington 1972, p. 19.
3. Fairfield 1983, p. 14.
4. Fairfield 1983, p. 33.
5. Fairfield 1983, p. 36.
6. Fairfield 1983, p. 38.
7. Fairfield 1983, p. 59.
8. Fairfield 1983, p. 73.
9. Fairfield 1983, p. 118.
10. Fairfield 1983, p. 134.
11. Fairfield 1983, p. 153.
12. Fairfield 1983, p. 174.
13. Fairfield 1983, p. 176.
14. Mills, Anthony David (2001). Dictionary of London Place Names. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-280106-6.
15. "North Lambeth — history | Lambeth Council". Lambeth.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
16. Mills, D. (2000). Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names. Oxford.
17. Fairfield 1983, p. 185.
18. Bebbington 1972, p. 194.
19. Fairfield 1983, p. 188.
20. Fairfield 1983, p. 189.
21. Fairfield 1983, p. 210.
22. Fairfield 1983, p. 226-7.
23. Fairfield 1983, p. 228.
24. Fairfield 1983, p. 241.
25. Fairfield 1983, p. 287.
26. Fairfield 1983, p. 317.
27. Fairfield 1983, p. 322.
28. Hibbert, Christopher (2008). London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan London Ltd. p. 967. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.
29. Fairfield 1983, p. 327.
30. Bebbington 1972, p. 331.
31. Fairfield 1983, p. 333.

Sources

• Fairfield, Sheila (1983). The Streets Of London: A Dictionary Of The Names And Their Origins. Papermac.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Bebbington, Gillian (1972). London Street Names. BT Batsford. ISBN 978-0-333-28649-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)