This is a list of the toponymy of street names in the

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district of

Vauxhall Vauxhall ( ) is a district in South West London, part of the London Borough of Lambeth, England. Vauxhall was part of Surrey until 1889 when the County of London was created. Named after a medieval manor, "Fox Hall", it became well known for ...

. 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. *

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– built in the 1860s over former marshlands, it was named for Albert, Prince Consort, husband of

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* Ashmole Street – after

Elias Ashmole Elias Ashmole (; 23 May 1617 – 18 May 1692) was an English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and student of alchemy. Ashmole supported the royalist side during the English Civil War, and at the restoration of Charles II he ...

, noted 17th century antiquarian, who lived near here * Auckland Street * Aveline Street * Bedser Close – presumably for

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, 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 Edward of Woodstock, known to history as the Black Prince (15 June 1330 – 8 June 1376), was the eldest son of King Edward III of England, and the heir apparent to the English throne. He died before his father and so his son, Richard II, suc ...

, son of Edward III, who owned this land * Bondway – after the late 18th century developers of this street John and Sarah Bond * Bonnington Square * Bowling Green Street – this land was formerly a bowling green leased to the owners of the nearby Horns Tavern * Brangton Road * Cardigan Street * Carroun Road – after the former Carroun, or Caron, House which stood here * Citadel Place * Clapham Road – as it leads to the south-west London

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of this name * Claylands Place and Claylands Road – after the former brick clay fields located here prior to 1800 * Clayton Street – after the Clayton family, who leased much of this land from the Duchy of Cornwall from the 1660s on * 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 * Glasshouse Walk – after the former Vauxhall Glassworks here, which thrived in the 1700s * Glyn Street * Goding Street * Graphite Square * Hanover Gardens * Hansom Mews * Harleyford Road – after local leaseholders the Claytons, whose country house was

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, Buckinghamshire * Harold Place * Jonathan Street – for Jonathan Tyers and his son, managers of the nearby

Vauxhall Gardens Vauxhall Gardens is a public park in Kennington in the London Borough of Lambeth, England, on the south bank of the River Thames. Originally known as New Spring Gardens, it is believed to have opened before the Restoration of 1660, being ...

for much of the 18th century * Kennington Gardens, Kennington Oval,

Kennington Park Road Kennington Park Road is a main road in south-east London, England, and is part of the A3 trunk road. It runs from Newington Butts at its Y-junction with Kennington Lane, south-west to the Oval, where the A3 continues as Clapham Road, towards ...

, Kennington Road – after the

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Chenintune (‘settlement of Chenna’a people’); another explanation is that it means "place of the King", or "town of the King". *

Lambeth Road Lambeth Road is a road in Lambeth (to the west) and Southwark (to the east), London running between Lambeth Bridge over the River Thames at the western end and St George's Circus at the eastern end. The road is designated the A3203. The boro ...

and South Lambeth Place – refers to a harbour where lambs were either shipped from or to. It is formed from the

'lamb' and 'hythe'. * Langley Lane * Laud Street – after

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, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to 1645, by association with the nearby Lambeth Palace * Lawn Lane – after a former row of houses here called The Lawn, after their grass plots, demolished in 1889-90 * Leopold Walk * Lilac Place * Loughborough Street * Magee Street * Meadow Mews and Meadow Road – after the former meadows here attached to Caron House * Miles Street * Montford Place * Newburn Street * New Spring Gardens Walk – after the former

here * Nine Elms Lane – after a row of nine elm trees which formerly stood along this lane * Orsett Street * Oval Way – after the adjacent Oval Cricket Ground * Palfrey Place * Parry Street – after Thomas Parry, 17th century statesman and owner of Copt Hall, a house near here * 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

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, 79th Archbishop of Canterbury, by association with the nearby Lambeth Palace * Stables Way * Stanley Close * Tinworth Street – after

George Tinworth George Tinworth (5 November 1843 – 11 September 1913) was an English ceramic artist who worked for the Doulton factory at Lambeth from 1867 until his death.'George Tinworth', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ir ...

, noted ceramic artist for the

Royal Doulton Royal Doulton is an English ceramic and home accessories manufacturer that was founded in 1815. Operating originally in Vauxhall, London, and later moving to Lambeth, in 1882 it opened a factory in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, in the centre of Engl ...

ceramics company at Lambeth * Trigon Road * Tyers Street and Tyers Terrace – for Jonathan Tyers and his son, managers of the nearby

for much of the 18th century * Vauxhall Bridge (and Bridgefoot), Vauxhall Grove, Vauxhall Street and Vauxhall Walk – from the name of Falkes de Breauté, the head of King

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'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 * Wandsworth Road – as it led to the south-west London

of this name * Wickham Street * Windmill Row * Worgan Street * Wynyard Terrace

References

Citations Sources * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Street names of Vauxhall Streets in the London Borough of Lambeth Lists of United Kingdom placename etymology History of the London Borough of Lambeth Vauxhall

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