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

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Acre Lane One of the oldest parish highways in Lambeth, Acre Lane takes its name from the Saxon word…
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Albert Embankment The mile of Thames riverfront opposite Westminster was built on reclaimed mud in 1868 &mda…
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Albert Square A Grade II* listed Victorian garden square built on market garden soil in 1846—where…
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Andrew Place A residential street set within the ancient Duchy of Cornwall estate — the same free…
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Aubyn Hill Named after a church that no longer stands — a Victorian landmark demolished in 1980…
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Baylis Road The road that honours the woman who single-handedly founded the National Theatre, the Roya…
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Bonham Road Named for a Norman-French word meaning “good man,” this Victorian street was c…
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Bonnington Square The square the council tried to demolish — saved by squatters who then bought it and…
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Braxted Park An Edwardian street beside Streatham Common that borrowed its name from a medieval Essex d…
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Bridgefoot The short street that takes its name from its location at the foot of a bridge approach—a …
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Brighton Terrace The road beneath this terrace was once the only way to reach Brighton from London — …
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Brixton Hill The road that Roman legionaries may have marched down, where a Saxon stone gave a district…
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Brixton Hill Place A Saxon boundary stone gave its name to an ancient Roman road — and that road, in tu…
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Brixton Market The market that became the beating heart of Black Britain — and whose name stretches…
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Brixton Road The road that carries the name of a Saxon lord’s boundary stone — first laid d…
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Burton Lane A Kennington street most likely named after the Manhattan-born composer who gave Broadway …
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Cavendish Road The name traces back over a thousand years to a Suffolk pasture recorded by William the Co…
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Cedars Road A Victorian architect’s doomed vision of a “Belgravia of the South” bega…
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Central Hill Hidden beneath a block of flats on this ridge-top road sits an 18-room nuclear bunker, bui…
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Clapham Common Northside Samuel Pepys died here in 1703; three centuries later, Graham Greene’s house on the …
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Clapham Road An ancient Roman highway transformed into a turnpike route, then a Victorian residential s…
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Cleaver Square South London’s first garden square was built by a tavern landlord on a meadow called…
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Coin Street The street whose residents fought off Richard Rogers and rebuilt a derelict South Bank on …
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Coldharbour Lane
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Cowley Road Behind an unassuming Lambeth street lies a Grade II listed Regency arcade — the…
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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…
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Electric Avenue The world’s first market street lit by electricity—a Victorian innovation born from …
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Elm Park A Victorian street in Clapham whose elm-tree name echoes the moment London’s develop…
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Hercules Road Where the father of the modern circus and William Blake, one of England’s greatest v…
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Herne Hill Road The street that transformed from country estate lane to Victorian thoroughfare, home to a …
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Kennington Oval The ground where England played its first Test match, and where the name itself comes from…
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Kennington Road A mile-long thoroughfare built in 1751 to carry traffic south from Westminster Bridge, thi…
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Stockwell Road The main arterial route from Brixton to Vauxhall, whose name carries two thousand years of…
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