This is a list of the etymology of street names in the
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
district of
Mayfair
Mayfair is an affluent area in the West End of London towards the eastern edge of Hyde Park, in the City of Westminster, between Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Park Lane. It is one of the most expensive districts in the world. ...
, in the
City of Westminster
The City of Westminster is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and London boroughs, borough in Inner London. It is the site of the United Kingdom's Houses of Parliament and much of the British government. It occupies a large area of cent ...
. It utilises the generally accepted boundaries of Mayfair viz. Marble Arch/Cumberland Gate and Oxford Street to the north, Regent Street to the east, Piccadilly to the south and Park Lane to the west.
* Achilles Way – after the nearby
Wellington as Achilles statue in
Hyde Park
Hyde Park may refer to:
Places
England
* Hyde Park, London, a Royal Park in Central London
* Hyde Park, Leeds, an inner-city area of north-west Leeds
* Hyde Park, Sheffield, district of Sheffield
* Hyde Park, in Hyde, Greater Manchester
Austra ...
* Adam's Row – believed to be after John Adams, local land agent in the 18th century
* Air Street – believed to be a corruption of ‘Ayres’, after Thomas Ayre, a local brewer and resident in the 17th century
[Fairfield, S. ''The Streets of London – A dictionary of the names and their origins'', p4]
* Albany and Albany Courtyard – after
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (Frederick Augustus; 16 August 1763 – 5 January 1827) was the second son of George III, King of the United Kingdom and Hanover, and his consort Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. A soldier by profess ...
, who in 1791 purchased Melbourne House which stood on this site
*
Albemarle Street
Albemarle Street is a street in Mayfair in central London, off Piccadilly. It has historic associations with Lord Byron, whose publisher John Murray was based here, and Oscar Wilde, a member of the Albemarle Club, where an insult he received ...
– after the
Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle
Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle (14 August 1653 – 6 October 1688) was an English soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons from 1667 to 1670 when he inherited the Dukedom and sat in the ...
, owner of Clarendon House which stood on this site in the late 17th century
* Aldford Street – after Aldford, a property on the Grosvenor family's Cheshire estates; it was formerly known as Chapel Street before 1886, as it led to the Grosvenor Chapel
* Archibald Mews – unknown; it was formerly John Court, after local landowner John, Lord Berkeley
* Audley Square, North Audley Street and South Audley Street – after Mary Davies, heiress to Hugh Audley, who married Sir Thomas Grosvenor, thereby letting the local land fall into the Grosvenors' ownership
* Avery Row – after Henry Avery, 18th century bricklayer who built this street over the Tyburn Brook, or possibly after Ebury, the ancient manor here
* Balderton Street – after local landowners the Grosvenors, who also owned land in
Balderton, Cheshire
Balderton is a village in Cheshire, England.
Nearby is Eaton Hall from where the one of the first 15-inch gauge railways ran to the goods yard of the GWR railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of tran ...
; formerly George Street
*
Balfour Mews and Balfour Place – after Eustace Balfour, surveyor for the Grosvenor estate 1890 – 1910
* Barlow Place – after either Thomas Barlow, builder and surveyor for the Grosvenor estate in the early 18th century or
Arthur Balfour
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, (, ; 25 July 184819 March 1930), also known as Lord Balfour, was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. As F ...
, politician and later Prime Minister in the early 20th century
*
Berkeley Square
Berkeley Square is a garden square in the West End of London. It is one of the best known of the many squares in London, located in Mayfair in the City of Westminster. It was laid out in the mid 18th century by the architect William Kent ...
and Berkeley Street – Berkeley House formerly stood here, home of
John Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley of Stratton in the late 17th century
* Binney Street – after Reverend
Thomas Binney
Thomas Binney (1798–1874) was an English Congregationalist divine of the 19th century, popularly known as the "Archbishop of Nonconformity". He was noted for sermons and writings in defence of the principles of Nonconformity, for devotional ...
, local 19th century minister; formerly called Bird Street
* Blenheim Street – after
Blenheim Palace
Blenheim Palace (pronounced ) is a country house in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. It is the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough and the only non-royal, non- episcopal country house in England to hold the title of palace. The palace, on ...
, owned by
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 O.S.) was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reign ...
, 17th – 18th century general
[Fairfield, S. ''The Streets of London – A dictionary of the names and their origins'', p347]
* Blackburne's Mews – after William Blackburne, local resident in the early 18th century
* Bloomfield Place – John Newson, who built the adjacent Bloomfield Flats, named them for his wife's maiden name
* Bolton Street – after Charles Powlett, Duke of Bolton, who owned this land when the street was built in 1699
* Bourdon Place and Bourdon Street – after the former Bourdon House, home of the Bourdon/Burden family in the early 18th century
*
Boyle Street – after
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork, (25 April 1694 – 4 December 1753) was a British architect and noble often called the "Apollo of the Arts" and the "Architect Earl". The son of the 2nd Earl of Burlington and 3rd Ea ...
, local landowner in the 18th century
* Brick Street – this area was formerly a set of fields used for digging brick-earth
* Broadbent Street – after
William Broadbent, physician to the royal family in the Victorian and Edwardian period, who lived nearby
* Brook Gate,
Brook Street
Brook Street is an axial street in the exclusive central London district of Mayfair. Most of it is leasehold, paying ground rent to and seeking lease renewals from the reversioner, that since before 1800, has been the Grosvenor Estate. Named a ...
, Brook's Mews and Upper Brook Street – Brook Street marks the path of the former Tyburn Brook
* Brown Hart Gardens – this was formerly two streets prior to 1936 – Brown Street, after 18th century local bricklayer John Brown, and Hart Street, probably after a local inn or resident
* Bruton Lane, Bruton Place and
Bruton Street
Bruton Street is a street in London's Mayfair district.
It runs from Berkeley Square in the south-west to New Bond Street in the north-east, where it continues as Conduit Street.
Notable residents have included Field Marshal John Campbell, 2n ...
– after
Bruton, Somerset, where
John Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley of Stratton owned land
*
Burlington Arcade
Burlington Arcade is a covered shopping arcade in London, England, United Kingdom. It is long, parallel to and east of Bond Street from Piccadilly through to Burlington Gardens. It is one of the precursors of the mid-19th-century European sh ...
,
Burlington Gardens
Burlington Gardens is a street in central London, on land that was once part of the Burlington Estate.
Location
The street is immediately to the north of the Royal Academy of Arts and joins Old Bond Street and New Bond Street in the west and ...
, New Burlington Mews, New Burlington Place,
New Burlington Street
New Burlington Street (originally Little Burlington Street) is a street in central London that is on land that was once part of the Burlington Estate. The current architecture of the street bears little resemblance to the original design of the ...
and
Old Burlington Street
Old Burlington Street is a street in central London that is on land that was once part of the Burlington Estate.
Location
The street runs north–south from Boyle Street to Burlington Gardens and is crossed only by Clifford Street.
History
A ...
– after the local Burlington estate, property of the earls of Burlington
[Fairfield, S. ''The Streets of London – A dictionary of the names and their origins'', p232]
* Carlos Place – after
Carlos I of Portugal
''Dom'' Carlos I (; English: King Charles of Portugal; 28 September 1863 – 1 February 1908), known as the Diplomat ( pt, o Diplomata), the Martyr ( pt, o Martirizado), and the Oceanographer ( pt, o Oceanógrafo), among many other names, was ...
; it was formerly Charles Street but was renamed in 1886 to avoid confusion with other streets of this name
* Carpenter Street
* Carrington Street – after 18th century local landowner Nathan Carrington
*
Charles Street – after a Charles in the family of
John Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley of Stratton
* Chesterfield Gardens, Chesterfield Hill and
Chesterfield Street
Chesterfield Street is a "virtually intact" Georgian street (except for No. 6, which is a reconstruction) in London's Mayfair district. Several of the buildings are Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England.
Location
Chesterfield ...
– after
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, (22 September 169424 March 1773) was a British statesman, diplomat, and man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time.
Early life
He was born in London to Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Ches ...
, who owned a mansion nearby in the 18th century
* Clarges Mews and Clarges Street – after William (or Thomas) Clarges, local landowner in the 17th century
*
Clifford Street – after
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork, (25 April 1694 – 4 December 1753) was a British architect and noble often called the "Apollo of the Arts" and the "Architect Earl". The son of the 2nd Earl of Burlington and 3rd Ea ...
, also Baron Clifford, after his ancestor Elizabeth Clifford
* Coach and Horses Yard – after the Burlington Arms pub here, formerly the Coach and Horses
*
Conduit Street
Conduit Street is a street in Mayfair, London. It connects Bond Street to Regent Street.
History
The street was first developed in the early 18th century on the Conduit Mead Estate, which the Corporation of London had owned since the 15th centu ...
– after a former water conduit here leading to the city and owned by the Corporation of London from the 15th century
*
Cork Street
Cork Street is a street in Mayfair in the West End of London, England, with many contemporary art galleries, and was previously associated with the tailoring industry. It is part of the Burlington Estate, which was developed from the 18th centur ...
and Cork Street Mews – after
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork, (25 April 1694 – 4 December 1753) was a British architect and noble often called the "Apollo of the Arts" and the "Architect Earl". The son of the 2nd Earl of Burlington and 3rd Ea ...
, also 4th Earl of Cork
* Culross Street – thought to be after
Culross
Culross (/ˈkurəs/) (Scottish Gaelic: ''Cuileann Ros'', 'holly point or promontory') is a village and former royal burgh, and parish, in Fife, Scotland.
According to the 2006 estimate, the village has a population of 395. Originally, Culross ...
in
Fife
Fife (, ; gd, Fìobha, ; sco, Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross (i ...
; prior to 1899 it was Northrop Street, after a Welsh property owned by the Grosvenor family
[Fairfield, S. ''The Streets of London – A dictionary of the names and their origins'', p88]
* Cumberland Gate – after
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
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, brother of
George III
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Br ...
; it was formerly Tyburn Gate, after the Tyburn Brook
* Curzon Gate, Curzon Square and
Curzon Street
Curzon Street is located within the Mayfair district of London. The street is located entirely within the W1J postcode district; the eastern end is north-east of Green Park underground station. It is within the City of Westminster, running ap ...
– after Nathaniel Curzon (and his family), local landowner in the 18th century
* Davies Mews and Davies Street – after Mary Davies, heiress to Hugh Audley, who married Sir Thomas Grosvenor, thereby letting the local land fall into the Grosvenors' ownership
[Fairfield, S. ''The Streets of London – A dictionary of the names and their origins'', p93]
* Deanery Mews and Deanery Street – this land was owned by
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an historic, mainly Gothic church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United ...
in the 18th century; it was formerly known as Dean and Chapter Street
* Derby Street – after
Derbyshire
Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...
, home county of local landowners the Curzon family
* Dering Street and Dering Yard – ''unknown''
* Down Street and Down Street Mews – after John Downes, local bricklayer in the 18th century
[Fairfield, S. ''The Streets of London – A dictionary of the names and their origins'', p101]
*
Dover Street
Dover Street is a street in Mayfair, London. The street is notable for its Georgian architecture as well as the location of historic London clubs and hotels, which have been frequented by world leaders and historic figures in the arts. It also ...
and Dover Yard – after
Henry Jermyn, 1st Baron Dover
Henry Jermyn, 3rd Baron Jermyn and 1st Baron Dover, 1st Jacobite Earl of Dover PC (c. 1636–1708) was an English peer and supporter of James II.
Jermyn was the second son of Thomas Jermyn, of Rushbrooke, Suffolk, who died in 1659, and his wi ...
, local leaseholder in the late 17th century
* Duke Street and Duke Yard – it is unknown precisely which duke, if any, this street commemorates
*
Dunraven Street
Dunraven Street is a street in London's Mayfair district. It was laid out in the 1750s as Norfolk Street, and in the 19th century was sometimes known as New Norfolk Street. In 1939, it was renamed Dunraven Street by London County Council, after ...
– after
Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, politician and soldier who lived near here
* Farm Street – this street was formerly part of Hay Hill farm
* Fitzmaurice Place – after
John FitzMaurice, father of
William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, (2 May 17377 May 1805; known as the Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history), was an Irish-born British Whig statesman who was the first ...
who lived near here in the 18th century
[Fairfield, S. ''The Streets of London – A dictionary of the names and their origins'', p187-88]
* George Yard – probably after John George, local 18th century glazier and builder
* Gilbert Street – unknown; formerly James Street
* Globe Yard
* Grafton Street – after the Dukes of Grafton, who owned a town house near here in the 18th century
* Grantham Place – after John (or Thomas) Grantham, local builder in the 18th century
*
Green Street – after John Green, local builder of the 18th century
* Grosvenor Gate, Grosvenor Hill,
Grosvenor Square
Grosvenor Square is a large garden square in the Mayfair district of London. It is the centrepiece of the Mayfair property of the Duke of Westminster, and takes its name from the duke's surname "Grosvenor". It was developed for fashionable re ...
, Grosvenor Street and
Upper Grosvenor Street
Upper Grosvenor Street is a one-way Georgian street in Mayfair, London, United Kingdom. It runs from the north side of the Grosvenor House Hotel (fronting Park Lane) to the south side of the London Chancery Building (fronting Grosvenor Squ ...
– after the Grosvenors, former local landowners
*
Half Moon Street – after a former inn near here of this name
* Hamilton Mews and Hamilton Place – built on land belonging to Mr Hamilton, ranger of
Hyde Park
Hyde Park may refer to:
Places
England
* Hyde Park, London, a Royal Park in Central London
* Hyde Park, Leeds, an inner-city area of north-west Leeds
* Hyde Park, Sheffield, district of Sheffield
* Hyde Park, in Hyde, Greater Manchester
Austra ...
during the reign King Charles II
*
Hanover Square and Hanover Street – after the
House of Hanover
The House of Hanover (german: Haus Hannover), whose members are known as Hanoverians, is a European royal house of German origin that ruled Hanover, Great Britain, and Ireland at various times during the 17th to 20th centuries. The house orig ...
, reigning dynasty when the square and street were built in 1713
* Harewood Place – after Ahrwood House, residence of the Earls of Harewood in the 19th century
* Haunch of Venison Yard – after a former 18th century inn near here
* Hay Hill, Hay's Mews and
Hill Street – after the Hay Hill farm which formerly stood here; the farm was originally ‘Aye farm’, after the nearby Aye Brook
*
Heddon Street – after William Pulteney (later also Baron Heddon), local 18th century landowner
*
Hertford Street
Hertford Street is a street in central London's Mayfair district.
It runs between a junction with Park Lane and Old Park Lane at its western end, to Curzon Street at its north-east end.
In 1771, Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn marrie ...
– after a former local inn named after the Seymours, Marquesses of Hertford
* Jervis Court
* Jones Street – after William Jones, yeoman, who leased a large plot here in 1723
* Lancashire Court
* Lansdowne Row – former site of Lansdowne House, home of
William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, (2 May 17377 May 1805; known as the Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history), was an Irish-born British Whig statesman who was the first ...
in the 18th century
* Lees Place – after either Robert Lee (or Lees), owner of the Two Chairman pub which formerly stood here or one Thomas Barrett of Lee, Kent, 19th century builder
* Lumley Street – after Sibell Lumley, wife of Victor, Earl Grosvenor, local landowner
* Lynsey Way
*
Maddox Street
Maddox Street is a street in the Mayfair area of London, extending from Regent Street to St George's, Hanover Square.
History
Maddox Street was completed in 1720. It was named after Sir Benjamin Maddox who owned the Millfield estate on which ...
– after the local Maddox estate, purchased by William Maddox in the 1620s
*
Marble Arch
The Marble Arch is a 19th-century white marble-faced triumphal arch in London, England. The structure was designed by John Nash (architect), John Nash in 1827 to be the state entrance to the cour d'honneur of Buckingham Palace; it stood near th ...
– after the Marble Arch erected here in 1851
* Market Mews – after the former
Shepherd Market
Shepherd Market is a small business-lined precinct featuring two small squares, one with a northern recess in Mayfair, in the West End of London, built up between 1735 and 1746 by Edward Shepherd on the open ground then used for the annual fair ...
near here
* Mason's Arms Mews – after the nearby Mason's Arms pub
* Mayfair Place – after the May Fair that was formerly held here in the 17th – 18th centuries
* Mill Street – after a windmill that formerly stood here next to the Tyburn brook
* Mount Row,
Mount Street and Mount Street Mews – built over the former Mount Field, from the former Oliver's Mount fortification built here by
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English politician and military officer who is widely regarded as one of the most important statesmen in English history. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1651 Wars of the Three Ki ...
during the
English Civil War
The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians (" Roundheads") and Royalists led by Charles I ("Cavaliers"), mainly over the manner of England's governance and issues of re ...
* New
Bond Street
Bond Street in the West End of London links Piccadilly in the south to Oxford Street in the north. Since the 18th century the street has housed many prestigious and upmarket fashion retailers. The southern section is Old Bond Street and the l ...
, Old Bond Street and Upper Bond Street – after Thomas Bond, member of the consortium that developed the local area in the late 17th century; ‘New’ comes from the extension of the then ‘Bond Street’ northwards in the early 18th century
* North Row – after its location as the northernmost street on the Grosvenor estate
*
Oxford Circus
Oxford Circus is a road junction connecting Oxford Street and Regent Street in the West End of London. It is also the entrance to Oxford Circus tube station.
The junction opened in 1819 as part of the Regent Street development under John Nash, ...
and
Oxford Street
Oxford Street is a major road in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, running from Tottenham Court Road to Marble Arch via Oxford Circus. It is Europe's busiest shopping street, with around half a million daily visitors, and as ...
– after
Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (2 June 1689 – 16 June 1741), styled Lord Harley between 1711 and 1724, was a British politician, bibliophile, collector and patron of the arts.
Background
Harley was the only son of Rober ...
who owned much of the local estate; prior to this it was known as Tyburn Road, as it led to the Tyburn gibbet at what is now Marble Arch. Circus is a British term for a road junction; it was formerly Regent Circus, after Regent Street
*
Park Lane
Park Lane is a dual carriageway road in the City of Westminster in Central London. It is part of the London Inner Ring Road and runs from Hyde Park Corner in the south to Marble Arch in the north. It separates Hyde Park to the west from May ...
, Old Park Lane and Park Street – after the nearby
Hyde Park
Hyde Park may refer to:
Places
England
* Hyde Park, London, a Royal Park in Central London
* Hyde Park, Leeds, an inner-city area of north-west Leeds
* Hyde Park, Sheffield, district of Sheffield
* Hyde Park, in Hyde, Greater Manchester
Austra ...
; Park Lane was formerly Tyburn Lane, after the Tyburn gibbet and stream, and Park Street was formerly Hyde Park Street
*
Piccadilly
Piccadilly () is a road in the City of Westminster, London, to the south of Mayfair, between Hyde Park Corner in the west and Piccadilly Circus in the east. It is part of the A4 road that connects central London to Hammersmith, Earl's Court, ...
,
Piccadilly Circus and Piccadilly Place – after Piccadilly Hall, home of local tailor Robert Baker in the 17th century, believed to be named after the pickadils (collars/hem trimmings) which made his fortune. Circus is a British term for a road junction; it was laid out by
John Nash in 1819
* Pitt's Head Mews – after a former pub on this site called the Pitt's Head, thought to be named after
William Pitt the Elder
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, (15 November 170811 May 1778) was a British statesman of the Whig group who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768. Historians call him Chatham or William Pitt the Elder to distinguish ...
* Pollen Street – after the Pollen family, who inherited the estate from the Maddox family
* Princes Street – named in a generic sense in honour of the then reigning
House of Hanover
The House of Hanover (german: Haus Hannover), whose members are known as Hanoverians, is a European royal house of German origin that ruled Hanover, Great Britain, and Ireland at various times during the 17th to 20th centuries. The house orig ...
* Providence Court – ''unknown''
* Queen Street – when it was built in 1735 there was no reigning queen, so to which queen it refers, if any, is unknown
* Red Lion Yard
* Red Place – coined in Victorian times after the colour of the local buildings
[Fairfield, S. ''The Streets of London – A dictionary of the names and their origins'', p265]
* Reeves Mews – after Spelsant Reeves, local leaseholder in the 18th century
*
Regent Street
Regent Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London. It is named after George, the Prince Regent (later George IV) and was laid out under the direction of the architect John Nash and James Burton. It runs from Waterloo Place ...
– made in the 1810s by
John Nash and named after the Prince Regent, later
George IV
George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from the death of his father, King George III, on 29 January 1820, until his own death ten y ...
* Rex Place – formerly King's Mews, it was renamed after the Latin term for ‘king’
* Royal Arcade – after
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 21 ...
, who visited this arcade
*
Sackville Street – after Captain Edward Sackville, tenant of a house on the west side of the street in 1675; it was formerly known as Stone Conduit Close
* Saddle Yard
* St Anselm's Place – former site of St Anselm's church, demolished 1938
* St George Street – originally George Street, after
George I George I or 1 may refer to:
People
* Patriarch George I of Alexandria (fl. 621–631)
* George I of Constantinople (d. 686)
* George I of Antioch (d. 790)
* George I of Abkhazia (ruled 872/3–878/9)
* George I of Georgia (d. 1027)
* Yuri Dolgor ...
, reigning monarch when the street was built; the ‘St’ was later added to link it to the nearby
St George's church
*
Savile Row
Savile Row (pronounced ) is a street in Mayfair, central London. Known principally for its traditional bespoke tailoring for men, the street has had a varied history that has included accommodating the headquarters of the Royal Geographical ...
– after
Dorothy Savile, Countess of Burlington and Countess of Cork, wife of
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork, (25 April 1694 – 4 December 1753) was a British architect and noble often called the "Apollo of the Arts" and the "Architect Earl". The son of the 2nd Earl of Burlington and 3rd Ea ...
, local landowner
* Sedley Place – named after Angelo Sedley, local 19th century furniture salesman
* Shepherd Close,
Shepherd Market
Shepherd Market is a small business-lined precinct featuring two small squares, one with a northern recess in Mayfair, in the West End of London, built up between 1735 and 1746 by Edward Shepherd on the open ground then used for the annual fair ...
, Shepherd Place and Shepherd Street – after Edward Shepherd, local builder in the 18th century; Shepherd Place was built by his brother John Shepherd
* South Molton Lane and
South Molton Street – unknown; South Molton Lane was formerly Poverty Lane
*
South Street – after its location as the southernmost street on the Grosvenor estate
* Stafford Street – after Margaret Stafford, local leaseholder in the late 17th century
* Stanhope Gate and Stanhope Row – after
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, (22 September 169424 March 1773) was a British statesman, diplomat, and man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time.
Early life
He was born in London to Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Ches ...
, who owned a mansion nearby in the 18th century
* Stratton Street – after
John Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley of Stratton, local resident in the late 17th century
* Swallow Passage, Swallow Place and Swallow Street – after a field on this site owned by Thomas Swallow in the 1530s
* Tentereden Street – ''unknown''
* Three Kings Yard – after a nearby inn, demolished 1879
* Tilney Street – after either John Tilney (or Tylney), who was granted this land in the 18th century
[Fairfield, S. ''The Streets of London – A dictionary of the names and their origins'', p316] or Ann Tilney, 18th century property owner; it was formerly Tripe Yard, after the butchery trade here
* Trebeck Street – after Reverend Trebeck, former rector of
St George's on Hanover Square in the 18th century
* Tyburn Way – formerly the site of the
Tyburn
Tyburn was a manor (estate) in the county of Middlesex, one of two which were served by the parish of Marylebone.
The parish, probably therefore also the manor, was bounded by Roman roads to the west (modern Edgware Road) and south (modern Ox ...
gallows, itself named after a deserted hamlet called Tiburne in the
Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
, meaning ‘boundary stream’
* Union Yard
*
Vigo Street
Vigo Street (originally Vigo Lane) is a short street in central London that is named after the Anglo-Dutch naval victory over the French and Spanish in the 1702 Battle of Vigo Bay. It has important literary connections.
Location
The street ru ...
– after either the British victory at the
Battle of Vigo Bay
The Battle of Vigo Bay, also known as the Battle of Rande (; ), was a naval engagement fought on 23 October 1702 during the opening years of the War of the Spanish Succession. The engagement followed an Anglo-Dutch attempt to capture the Spanish ...
in 1702
or the capture of a Spanish vessel of this name in 1719
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Vine Street
Vine Street is a street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California that runs north–south between Franklin Avenue and Melrose Avenue. The intersection with Hollywood Boulevard was once a symbol of Hollywood itself. The famed intersection fell into ...
– after The Vine, an 18th-century
public house
A pub (short for public house) is a kind of drinking establishment which is licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term ''public house'' first appeared in the United Kingdom in late 17th century, and was ...
,
which in turn may have been named after a
vineyard
A vineyard (; also ) is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice. The science, practice and study of vineyard production is known as viticulture. Vineyards ...
that existed at this location in Roman times
* Waverton Street – after
Waverton, Cheshire
Waverton is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish on the outskirts of Chester in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It lies about south-east of Chester High Cross, ...
, where local landowners the Grosvenors also held land
[Fairfield, S. ''The Streets of London – A dictionary of the names and their origins'', p335]
* Weighhouse Street – after the
King's Weigh House
The King's Weigh House was the name of a Congregational church congregation in London. Its Victorian church building in Mayfair is now the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family in Exile.
History
A building called the "King's Weyho ...
Chapel, which moved here in 1891; before this it was known as Robert Street, after
Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster, (22 March 1767 – 17 February 1845) was the son of the 1st Earl Grosvenor, whom he succeeded in 1802 as 2nd Earl Grosvenor. He was created Marquess of Westminster in 1831. He wa ...
, and before that as Chandler Street after the local chandler trade
* White Horse Street – after a former inn of this name at this site, named for the Royal emblem of the House of Hanover
* Wood's Mews – after Richard Wood, who built this street in 1731
* Woodstock Street – after either
Woodstock, Oxfordshire
Woodstock is a market town and civil parish, north-west of Oxford in West Oxfordshire in the county of Oxfordshire, England. The 2011 Census recorded a parish population of 3,100.
Blenheim Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is next to Wo ...
, location of to
Blenheim Palace
Blenheim Palace (pronounced ) is a country house in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. It is the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough and the only non-royal, non- episcopal country house in England to hold the title of palace. The palace, on ...
, home of
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 O.S.) was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reign ...
, 17th – 18th century general
or Thomas Woodstock, 18th century builder
* Yarmouth Place – after
Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford, Earl of Yarmouth who lived near here in the 19th century
[Fairfield, S. ''The Streets of London – A dictionary of the names and their origins'', p349]
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Mayfair
Mayfair is an affluent area in the West End of London towards the eastern edge of Hyde Park, in the City of Westminster, between Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Park Lane. It is one of the most expensive districts in the world. ...
Mayfair
City of Westminster
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