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Lambeth

From the Archbishop's palace at the river to the market streets of Brixton, the story behind every street name in Lambeth.

119 streets published so far

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Abbeville Road A Victorian shopping parade raised almost overnight on the gardens of Clapham's grand vill…

Acre Lane One of the oldest parish highways in Lambeth, Acre Lane takes its name from the Saxon word…

Akerman Road The Brixton street that pre-dates its own estate, and briefly housed the king's jester

Albert Embankment The mile of Thames riverfront opposite Westminster was built on reclaimed mud in 1868 &mda…

Albert Square A Grade II* listed Victorian garden square built on market garden soil in 1846—where…

Andrew Place A residential street set within the ancient Duchy of Cornwall estate — the same free…

Aubyn Hill Named after a church that no longer stands — a Victorian landmark demolished in 1980…

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Barrington Road A speculative Victorian street on the Lambeth Wick estate, named for a Royalist baron and …

Baylis Road The road that honours the woman who single-handedly founded the National Theatre, the Roya…

Bedford Road A former short-cut between Clapham and Brixton Hill, named for a estate that once reached …

Belvedere Road From a medieval flood wall to the South Bank's civic and cultural frontage

Black Prince Road From the parish archery butts to the Black Prince's manor road, by way of five separate st…

Bonham Road Named for a Norman-French word meaning “good man,” this Victorian street was c…

Bonnington Square The square the council tried to demolish — saved by squatters who then bought it and…

Braxted Park An Edwardian street beside Streatham Common that borrowed its name from a medieval Essex d…

Bridgefoot The short street that takes its name from its location at the foot of a bridge approach—a …

Brighton Terrace The road beneath this terrace was once the only way to reach Brighton from London — …

Brixton Hill The road that Roman legionaries may have marched down, where a Saxon stone gave a district…

Brixton Hill Place A Saxon boundary stone gave its name to an ancient Roman road — and that road, in tu…

Brixton Market The market that became the beating heart of Black Britain — and whose name stretches…

Brixton Oval The oval garden at Brixton's busiest crossroads, named for its shape, then for a sugar mag…

Brixton Road The road that carries the name of a Saxon lord’s boundary stone — first laid d…

Brixton Water Lane A marshy lane cut through Rush Common that still carries water in its name

Burton Lane A Kennington street most likely named after the Manhattan-born composer who gave Broadway …

Burton Road A Victorian street cut in half by slum clearance, its surviving third still home to a run …

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Casino Avenue A street born from the ruins of a grand estate, where a celebrated lawyer’s Regency …

Cavendish Road The name traces back over a thousand years to a Suffolk pasture recorded by William the Co…

Cedars Road A Victorian architect’s doomed vision of a “Belgravia of the South” bega…

Central Hill Hidden beneath a block of flats on this ridge-top road sits an 18-room nuclear bunker, bui…

Clapham Common Northside Samuel Pepys died here in 1703; three centuries later, Graham Greene’s house on the …

Clapham Common South Side A road laid along the line of a Roman highway, lined with Georgian terraces and milestones…

Clapham High Street Clapham's spine, carried by a Roman road and rebuilt around three railways

Clapham Park Road The western stretch of an old country lane, built up for Clapham's merchants and fought fo…

Clapham Road An ancient Roman highway transformed into a turnpike route, then a Victorian residential s…

Cleaver Square South London’s first garden square was built by a tavern landlord on a meadow called…

Coin Street The street whose residents fought off Richard Rogers and rebuilt a derelict South Bank on …

Coldharbour Lane

Cormont Road A Victorian street of schools and towers on the edge of Myatt's Fields Park

Cornwall Road From a lane to the Thames to a road named for the Duchy of Cornwall

Cowley Road Behind an unassuming Lambeth street lies a Grade II listed Regency arcade — the…

Cranmer Court A name that reaches back to a Tudor martyr who burned for his faith in Oxford — and …

Cromwell Road A name drawn from one of the most contested dynasties in English history, planted quietly …

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Denmark Hill A Danish prince hunted here in the late seventeenth century — and the hill has carri…

Dulwich Road A straightened water lane that became the northern edge of Brockwell Park

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Effra Road A road cut across common land in 1810 to open farmland for building, named for a river alr…

Electric Avenue The world’s first market street lit by electricity—a Victorian innovation born from …

Elm Park A Victorian street in Clapham whose elm-tree name echoes the moment London’s develop…

Evandale Road A terraced street raised over the grounds of a vanished 17th-century mansion

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Fentiman Road A road laid across a drained marsh, named for the family who reclaimed it

Ferndale Road A shepherds' lane that charity, a department store and a school of building turned into Br…

Flodden Road A Camberwell villa street that quietly became home to London's volunteer soldiers, an orch…

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Grafton Square A mid-Victorian garden square of stuccoed terraces off Clapham Old Town

Gresham Road A Brixton street of early villas, a telephone exchange, and two forgotten music hall stars

Greyhound Lane An old track to Mitcham that lent its name to a station — and lost it again

Guildford Road A Victorian street of terraced villas and the striking St. Barnabas Church, built around a…

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Hackford Road The Victorian terrace where Vincent van Gogh sketched London and fell in love, renamed in …

Half Moon Lane A pub with a nationally important historic interior gave this Camberwell lane its enduring…

Hamilton Road A Victorian street where philanthropic almshouses rose in the 19th century as London's exp…

Harleyford Road A turnpike approach to Vauxhall Bridge, named for a Buckinghamshire manor and built up by …

Heath Road A modest street named for the open heathland that once stretched across south London, befo…

Hercules Road Where the father of the modern circus and William Blake, one of England’s greatest v…

Herne Hill Road The street that transformed from country estate lane to Victorian thoroughfare, home to a …

High Trees The street that took its name from a building at the centre of an English legal revolution…

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Kennington Lane A medieval lane from Kennington to Newington that became the back edge of Vauxhall's pleas…

Kennington Oval The ground where England played its first Test match, and where the name itself comes from…

Kennington Road A mile-long thoroughfare built in 1751 to carry traffic south from Westminster Bridge, thi…

Kings Avenue A Victorian avenue of villas on the eastern edge of Clapham Park

Knatchbull Road A Victorian estate road built by one family — church, library and hall still standing toge…

Knight's Hill A winding lane named for a Tudor family that outlasted a Lord Chancellor's ruined mansion …

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Lambeth Palace Road The road built out of the Thames to carry a hospital to the Archbishop's door

Landor Road A private Victorian road that grew up around a fever hospital and a parish church

Lansdowne Way A lane older than the streets around it, built up house by house across two centuries

Larkhall Lane A short Stockwell lane named, it is thought, for a tavern-keeper's caged larks

Larkhall Rise A lane of larks that became the spine of a Victorian estate

Leigham Court Road A solicitor's road laid across a medieval monastic farm, running up to Streatham Hill

Loughborough Park A road of villas named for a house that was gone before the road was finished

Loughborough Road A Royalist's mansion gave its name to a road that outlived it by over a century

Lower Marsh The lane across a drained marsh that became Waterloo's market street

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Minet Road A Victorian estate road that swapped the Minet family's name for Holland's, then swapped i…

Mostyn Road A Victorian street of villas and a chapel, reduced to three houses by the 1970s

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New Park Road A Lambeth street of early Victorian villas, corner pubs and a Gault-brick chapel, between …

Normandy Road A Brixton terrace of 1824 that became the address of a national reckoning

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Old Town The surviving core of old Clapham village, from 18th-century town houses to the works that…

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Park Hall Road A road laid out after a lord's death, built as villas, and later host to a pioneering radi…

Park Hill A quiet Lambeth road that carried a sugar magnate's mansion, a bombed church, and a handfu…

Paulet Road A late-Victorian street built out of the Minet family's market gardens

Priory Grove A narrow Stockwell lane that outlasted a priory road, a Victorian school and the clearance…

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Railton Road A railway suburb's high street that became the heart of Black Brixton's politics, and the …

Rectory Grove The street that was once the whole of Clapham village

Robsart Street A Brixton side street rebuilt twice over, from cottage shops to tower blocks

Rosendale Road A West Dulwich suburb road that housed a cathedral-that-never-was, a Peabody estate, and a…

Rushcroft Road A Brixton street built across common land, lined with mansion flats once favoured by Music…

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Sancroft Street A Kennington street renamed for an archbishop, built twice over by the Duchy of Cornwall

Santley Street A Victorian church and school street built on a philanthropist's former estate

Shakespeare Road A humble Victorian terrace street named in company with Chaucer, Spenser and Milton

South Lambeth Road From a medieval manor boundary to Turnpike Trust road, via a vinegar works, a blind Postma…

Stockwell Green A moated manor house, a village green, and the chapel where William Booth married

Stockwell Park Road A Victorian estate road where a Commissioners' church, an almshouse charity, a music-hall …

Stockwell Road The main arterial route from Brixton to Vauxhall, whose name carries two thousand years of…

Stradella Road Named after a Baroque composer, this Victorian terrace in Camberwell became a conservation…

Streatham High Road A Roman road to the coast that became London's most argued-over high street

Streatham Hill The road that turned a hill above a Saxon village into the 'West End of south London'

Sunnyhill Road A dog-leg lane to a mineral spring that became a Victorian cottage street

Sunray Avenue Built on a Georgian mansion’s grounds, this cottage estate was named after the garde…

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Telford Avenue A stockbroker's marriage gave this Streatham avenue its name — and its 1930s mansion block…

The Pavement A small Clapham square that gathered a clock tower, a fire station and a historian's child…

Tooting Bec Gardens A trackway to Tooting Bec, a Norman abbey's name, and a village edge still visible in bric…

Trinity Gardens A Victorian square off Acre Lane that lost its southern side to the Blitz and later gave B…

Tulse Hill From a Lord Mayor's country manor to a Victorian estate of large villas, then flats, schoo…

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Union Road A Clapham-Stockwell lane older than the terraces that line it

Upper Tulse Hill An estate road cut through Tulse family land in 1820, built up with villas and, at No. 90,…

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Valley Road A Streatham lane built on medicinal wells, a dairy, and a spa house that still hides the s…

Vassall Road A Lambeth Wick estate road named for the family surname a baron adopted for his wife

Villa Road A Brixton terrace that outlived the bulldozer, from a stuccoed 1810 villa to one of London…

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Walcot Square A triangular square named for a 17th-century landowner, built on a Lambeth market garden i…

Walnut Tree Walk A field lane named for its walnut trees, built up by two rival sets of trustees

Wandsworth Road An old road to the south-west, still carrying its name to a station and a surviving Georgi…

Wiltshire Road The spine of a Victorian estate laid out on Repton's principles, half-swallowed by the 197…