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From the Roman road at Borough High Street to the Victorian terraces of Camberwell, the story behind every street name in the borough.

215 streets published so far

Streets

215

Tier 1

69

Tier 2

61

Tier 3

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Abbey Street The path of a medieval monastery’s ruined nave, now a link between Bermondsey’…

Abbeyfield Road A Victorian street named after a 20th-century charity for older people, anchoring quiet re…

Abbotswood Road A quiet Victorian residential street bearing the name of an ancient forest that once shape…

Abercorn Way A modern street in the heart of Elephant and Castle, its name origin lost to the rapid red…

Aberdour Street A Victorian street named after a Scottish fishing village, sitting in the heart of South L…

Ablett Street A Victorian street in Rotherhithe, named after a local resident whose identity has faded f…

Acacia Grove A quiet residential street in South London, part of Southwark's residential character in t…

Addington Square A Georgian refuge named after a wartime Prime Minister, where Burgess Park and a legacy of…

Albany Road Named after a royal duke whose Scottish title stretches back to the Gaelic word for Scotla…

Albert Way A Peckham side-street most likely named after a Victorian antiquary who befriended Charles…

Albion Street Named for the oldest word ever recorded for Britain — an ancient name carrying two t…

Alsace Road A lost French province, remembered in Walworth brick — named after the territory sei…

Amelia Street A Victorian terrace tucked into the working heart of Southwark, where a simple given name …

Anchor Street Named for a brewery that stood on the ruins of Shakespeare’s Globe—where the s…

Angel Place A narrow passage whose history is written in its surviving prison wall—Angel Place once he…

Austral Street A Victorian street named after a distant continent, lined with period terraces that surviv…

Avonmouth Street A quiet Victorian street transformed into one of Walworth’s most contemporary addres…

Ayres Street A nursemaid’s selfless act in 1885 led to this street being renamed in her honour in…

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Baden Place A short lane in Borough with a mysterious Victorian name, its origin lost to time but its …

Bank End Once the location of Elizabethan entertainment and medieval inns, this short riverside lan…

Bankside Shakespeare built his Globe here because the Bishop of Winchester’s authority was to…

Bartholomew Street A Georgian terrace built on the grounds of a medical institution, its name honours the Lon…

Basing Court A small medieval court preserved in Southwark's dense street fabric, named for the Basing …

Battle Bridge Lane Named after the Abbots of Battle Abbey, who owned a London residence here from 1295—its me…

Bear Gardens A narrow cobbled alley bearing the name of Elizabethan England’s most notorious bloo…

Bear Lane Shakespeare lodged yards from here in 1596 — and the bears his audiences knew by nam…

Beatrice Road A quiet South Bermondsey street whose name almost certainly honours a Victorian princess &…

Becket Street A street named for a murdered archbishop, shaped by pilgrims journeying toward his shrine.

Beckway Street A quiet Victorian street in South London whose name likely carries echoes of ancient water…

Bedale Street A compact market lane renamed to avoid confusion, taking its name from a Yorkshire town an…

Bergen Square Named for a Norwegian city whose timber ships once crowded the docks at Rotherhithe—…

Bermondsey Square The courtyard of a medieval abbey now pulses with Friday antiques traders and contemporary…

Bermondsey Street A thousand-year causeway built across marshland to reach a royal abbey — the oldest …

Bird in a Bush Road Once known as Carlton Street, this road was renamed in 1912 after the fields that once sur…

Black Horse Court An alley named after a historic inn that has served locals for over two centuries.

Black Swan Yard A small alleyway off Bermondsey Street hiding a celebrated speciality coffee shop, just ya…

Blackfriars Road Built as the elegant south approach to Robert Mylne’s masterwork bridge, then rename…

Blue Anchor Lane The lane that named a neighbourhood — and the 18th-century tavern that started it al…

Bolina Road A Victorian street that carries the name of a ship, in a neighbourhood built on shipbuildi…

Bolton Crescent A Victorian crescent named after the Bolton family, whose quiet arc of terraced properties…

Borough High Street Where Roman roads converged with pilgrimage routes, and twenty-three coaching inns powered…

Borough Road Two centuries of free education began on this street in 1798, when Joseph Lancaster opened…

Boundary Row A quiet street named for the invisible line that divided medieval Southwark—the boun…

Bowling Green Place A short street named after the leisured past, when Southwark’s green invited bowlers…

Boyfield Street Named for an 18th-century clothmaker whose family gave their surname to the very ground th…

Braidwood Street A street named after the man whose death changed London’s approach to fire service f…

Bricklayers Arms Flyover A concrete flyover named for a coaching inn whose sign hung here for over six centuries &m…

Bridge Yard The medieval heart of London Bridge management, where the first guardians of the river cro…

Brisbane Street Named for the man who gave Australia’s third-largest city its name—a Scottish …

Brockham Street A Victorian terrace built on the Trinity House Estate, this quiet street retains its early…

Brockley Mews A quiet lane of Victorian stables transformed into residential housing, preserving the sca…

Brunswick Park Named after a queen George IV despised — Caroline of Brunswick, whose popular cause …

Burbage Close A street name that carries the weight of Anglo-Saxon fortifications—from castled bro…

Burcher Gale Road A quiet Victorian residential street in Peckham whose name origin remains a mystery, waiti…

Bursar Street A quiet street named after a medieval bishop who left his fortune to an endowment that sha…

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Cadiz Street A Georgian street named after a Spanish port, rooted in the age of global trade that shape…

Caleb Street A quiet Victorian lane named after a 17th-century diarist, tucked into the medieval heart …

Calmington Road A Victorian street running through the heart of South London, where residential terraces m…

Calvert’s Buildings An 18th-century brewer’s name marks a medieval alley that once answered to the Fishm…

Camberwell Church Street A thousand years of worship defined this route. The medieval parish church burned and rose…

Camberwell Green Once a village fairground rivalling Greenwich’s, now a formal park around the healin…

Camberwell Grove An avenue of Georgian townhouses on a hilltop that once afforded views of the City of Lond…

Camberwell New Road Built on ground where Surrey once hanged its criminals, this is believed to be the longest…

Camberwell Road The road to a Domesday village whose very name encodes the memory of a vanished well &mdas…

Canal Street Named for a waterway that once aimed for Portsmouth — the Grand Surrey Canal, author…

Canvey Street Renamed for an Essex island, a street that began as a pathway through cloth workers’…

Cardinal Bourne Street Named after a cardinal in an era of Catholic expansion, this Bermondsey street has been en…

Cardinal Cap Alley London’s narrowest public alley, squeezed between the Globe and Tate Modern, echoes …

Carter Street A street that preserves the memory of medieval commerce—named after the carters who …

Castle Yard A short passage in Blackfriars where Norman castles once stood, centuries before the Domin…

Cathedral Street From medieval priory to present-day cathedral, this street takes its name from the oldest …

Chambers Street Named after a wharf that handled Thames cargo into the 1960s — a street that did not…

Champion Grove A Victorian street in Camberwell where the name origin remains a mystery, yet the streetsc…

Champion Hill A Huguenot family’s surname became a hilltop, and that hilltop became a stadium that…

Charleston Street A small street near Elephant and Castle with an uncertain name origin, rooted in the post-…

Chatham Street Built from scratch in 1876 by a single Walworth builder, this Victorian terrace street car…

Clack Street A quiet Victorian warehouse lane where Bermondsey’s industrial past still stands in …

Claude Road A short residential street in Peckham, well-placed between two railway stations and a neig…

Clennam Street Named after Charles Dickens’ protagonist, this Victorian street carries the name of …

Clifton Place A Rotherhithe address whose tranquil name — borrowed from an Old English word for a …

Clink Street A narrow cobbled lane named for a medieval prison that gave its name to every cell and loc…

Cluny Place A quiet street named after a medieval monastic order that shaped Bermondsey for centuries.

College Road London’s last surviving private tollgate still charges on this Dulwich road — …

Collett Road A modern street carved from London’s industrial waterfront, now the heart of a trans…

Collinson Street Named for a family remembered for their local devotion, this quiet street in The Borough e…

Cooks Road A quiet Victorian lane south of the Borough market, named for the cooks and cookhouses tha…

Copperfield Street A Victorian terrace sheltering a community identity rooted in Charles Dickens’ most …

Counter Street A narrow passage named after a medieval debtors’ prison, now quietly lined with Vict…

County Grove A Victorian terraced street in Camberwell named for a lost landscape, now protected as par…

Crown Street The birthplace of a Victoria Cross hero, and a quiet residential street in the heart of Vi…

Crucifix Lane A street that remembers a medieval cross long since destroyed, now dominated by Victorian …

Crystal Palace Parade A Victorian street named after the iconic glass palace that transformed South London and b…

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Daniels Road A Victorian-era residential street in Peckham whose name origin remains unrecorded, yet wh…

Datchelor Place A quiet Victorian street in the heart of South London’s most transforming neighbourh…

Deal Porters Walk A quiet lane named after the Baltic timber merchants who made Rotherhithe a thriving port.

Denmark Road A Victorian terrace built on a royal hunting ground — the street carries the name of…

Dibdin Row A quiet residential street whose origin remains unrecorded, though its Victorian-era fabri…

Dickens Square From Union Square to a literary memorial, renamed to honour Charles Dickens and the Southw…

Dirty Lane A street name revived from the 1740s now runs beneath Victorian railway arches, connecting…

Dolben Street Renamed in 1911 after a seventeenth-century archbishop, yet built barely a century before&…

Domett Close A small residential close on the southern edge of Southwark’s historic sprawl, where…

Dorrit Street Named after Charles Dickens's novel and the neighbourhood's links to the author's most aff…

Doyce Street A modest residential street in Southwark’s Elephant & Castle neighbourhood, wher…

Druid Street A street beneath the viaduct that marks the gateway to Bermondsey’s craft brewery re…

Duke Street Hill A short street marked by fragments of London’s most famous bridge, laid out in 1824 …

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East Lane Charlie Chaplin called it East Lane — and the name that only south Londoners used ma…

East Street Market Locals have called it “The Lane” for generations — a street market whose…

Edmund Street Named in all probability after Sir Edmund Bowyer — the Camberwell manor lord whose f…

Elephant & Castle The name that conquered a whole district of south London came from a single pub — an…

Elephant and Castle A major junction named after an eighteenth-century coaching inn, transformed from the &lsq…

Elephant Road Named for a coaching inn whose sign came from the ivory trade—this short Walworth ro…

Elim Street A street named after Pentecostal faith, Elim Street bears the mark of twentieth-century re…

Elland Road A Yorkshire mill town’s name transplanted to a Victorian terrace in Peckham — …

Elm Grove Carved from Peckham’s market-garden fields in the 1830s, Elm Grove was one of a trio…

Emba Street A modest Victorian-era residential lane whose name origin remains unrecorded, quietly pres…

Emerson Street Named after a 16th-century charitable founder whose property shaped the streets of Banksid…

English Grounds A short lane named for railway workers who forged London’s transport network in the …

Evelina Road A Victorian terrace named after a woman whose identity remains quietly obscured in the str…

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Fair Street A street named for the fair that once drew crowds to Horsleydown, before buildings transfo…

Farrow Place A quiet Victorian street in Rotherhithe whose name remains uncertain, holding the characte…

Fenning Street A narrow lane threading through the medieval Borough district, Fenning Street sits at the …

Fielding Street

Fives Court A Victorian street named after a working-class hand-ball game that has vanished from memor…

Fleming Road Named after a Victorian barrister who governed eleven colonies — a Walworth street c…

Fort Road Every house on this Bermondsey street stands where Parliament’s soldiers dug earthwo…

Frankland Close A quiet residential close in Rotherhithe whose name origin remains a mystery—part of…

Frean Street A Victorian industrial street named after the Frean biscuit dynasty, whose factory stamped…

Frederick Road A short Walworth side street planted on ground that was open Canterbury manor farmland les…

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Gallery Road The only road in London named after England’s oldest public art gallery — a bu…

Gambia Street A pedestrianised corner of The Borough where Victorian railways overhead give way to commu…

Gavel Street A quiet passage steps from Borough Market, where London’s medieval character persist…

Gaza Street A Victorian backstreet in Walworth that started life as plain Green Street — then wa…

George Inn Yard London’s last galleried coaching inn, where travellers once gathered for coaches to …

Gilkes Crescent A Victorian residential street in East Dulwich, where the name remains a quiet echo of the…

Gipsy Hill A queen of fortune-tellers once held court on this wooded ridge — and the name she l…

Glasshill Street Named for the glassworks that once defined this Southwark lane, where industrial craft gav…

Glengall Road The waste ground where factory workers from Aberdeen kicked a football in 1885 — and…

Grange Road The road is named after a medieval monastery’s farm — and the monks of Bermond…

Grange Walk The iron gate-hooks of a medieval monastery still protrude from the wall at number 7 …

Great Guildford Street Named after a Tudor noblewoman’s mansion, this street was born from a Victorian impr…

Great Suffolk Street Once called Dirty Lane, this Southwark thoroughfare owes its grander name to a Tudor duke …

Grosvenor Park Named for a Norman huntsman whose descendants became the Dukes of Westminster, this mid-Vi…

Grove Vale A Victorian street named for the landscape it replaced — tranquil terraces bu…

Guildable Bridge Street A small street in the shadow of London Bridge, where medieval lanes still follow patterns …

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Hanover Park Named for a German royal dynasty that never set foot in Peckham — but whose patronag…

Hardwidge Street A hidden turning in Bermondsey, named after an 18th-century needlemaker whose trade once d…

Harris Street A Victorian terrace row pressed into Peckham’s expanding grid — named, most li…

Hatfields A commercial throughway built on the site of Archbishop Laud’s pleasure gardens, now…

Hayes Grove A Victorian residential street where a country family’s surname became East Dulwich&…

Heiron Street A quiet Victorian street in South London whose name remains obscure—yet its terraced house…

Holly Grove The street has carried three names in two centuries — and its pocket park was born f…

Honor Oak Park A single oak tree on a south London hill — said to have sheltered Elizabeth I o…

Hopton Street Renamed in the 1930s to honour a wealthy merchant’s charity, Hopton Street preserves…

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Ivanhoe Road Named for a fictional Saxon knight, this Victorian street carries the echoes of Sir Walter…

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Janeway Place A quiet residential street in Rotherhithe whose name remains shrouded in uncertainty, stan…

Jennings Road Named after a churchman in a neighbourhood built from scratch in under a decade, this quie…

John Felton Road A quiet Deptford street named after a man who stabbed a duke in 1628—one of London&r…

Jubilee Walkway Opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 9 June 1977 to celebrate her silver jubilee, the Jubilee W…

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Kelly Avenue A surname carried forward from Victorian land development—laid out when Peckham&rsqu…

Kennington Park Road Roman legions marched this tarmac — Kennington Park Road has followed the line of St…

Keston Road A Victorian-era residential street named after a village beyond south London, marking the …

King Edward Walk A short residential street straddling the invisible line between Southwark and Lambeth, wh…

King’s Court A short court in The Borough whose royal name echoes a neighbourhood once crowded with the…

King’s Grove Kings hunted this land for centuries before a single terrace was built — and the str…

Kipling Street A quiet residential lane named for one of the Victorian era’s greatest writers, stan…

Knatchbull Road A Victorian street named after Kentish landowners who shaped nineteenth-century Camberwell…

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Lant Street A quiet Southwark street named after its eighteenth-century landowners — and remembe…

Leathermarket Street Once thick with the stench of tanning pits and raw hides, this short Bermondsey street pre…

Leigh Hunt Street London’s shortest street is named after a Romantic poet imprisoned for defending fre…

Leo Street A quiet Victorian street where a personal name from the 1880s marks the boundary between t…

Little Dorrit Court A quiet pedestrian court named after Charles Dickens’ 1857 novel about the Marshalse…

Loftie Street A quiet corner of South London where the story of the street name remains a small mystery.

Lomond Grove A Victorian street named after Scotland’s largest lake, built to house the workers a…

London Road The road that pointed toward London — before Southwark became part of it.

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Madron Street Named after a Cornish village, this Victorian terrace street sits quietly in Southwark&rsq…

Malt Street The name comes straight from the grain that fuelled London’s brewing industry. For t…

Marigold Street A Victorian street named after a flower, marking Rotherhithe’s transformation from w…

Mayflower Close A modern close named after the ship that carried the Pilgrims to the New World, sailing fr…

Merrow Street A quiet Walworth backstreet whose name carries a thousand-year-old Surrey word for fertile…

Mint Street Where a royal coining house became a Dickensian slum, then a park. A street named after 16…

Mission Place A Victorian street that preserves the memory of Methodist witness in working-class Southwa…

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Northflock Street A quiet residential street in central Southwark, whose compound name hints at medieval lan…

Nunhead Green A medieval pub name that became the identity of a Victorian neighbourhood.

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Old Kent Road Roman legions marched it. Chaucer’s pilgrims walked it. Henry V paraded down it afte…

Olmar Street A quiet Victorian terrace street in Southwark, built during the 19th-century transformatio…

Osborne Street A Victorian name anchoring a quiet Southwark corner in the fabric of southeast London's in…

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Pardoner Street Named for one of Chaucer’s most unforgettable pilgrims—a medieval con artist who sol…

Peckham Rye The road that carries an Anglo-Saxon stream in its name — and the common where an ei…

Pennack Road A quiet residential street in Peckham whose name origin remains a mystery from the Victori…

Pioneer Street A Victorian working-class street born of the Surrey Docks’ insatiable hunger for lab…

Portland Street A Walworth street that bore a ducal name, then a concrete estate, and is now rising again …

Pytchley Road Named after a prestigious English hunting estate, this Victorian street carries a legacy o…

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Redcross Way A short Southwark street with a medieval burial ground, a Victorian philanthropist’s…

Reynolds Road A quiet Victorian terrace in Peckham’s hinterland, where South London spread outward…

Ruskin Walk A quiet residential street in the heart of Herne Hill, named in tribute to the Victorian a…

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Senate Street A quiet Victorian terrace in Peckham, named after a classical institution in an era when S…

Shad Thames The Victorian spice-port beside Tower Bridge whose name has baffled historians for three h…

Shand Street A Victorian bureaucrat’s quiet immortality on the edge of London’s most devast…

Spa Road The street that names itself after Georgian mineral springs now lost beneath the viaduct t…

Spurgeon Street The street named after the ‘Prince of Preachers’ whose voice drew tens of thou…

St. George's Road A Victorian residential street in Walworth whose name origin remains uncertain, carrying t…

Stamford Street The engineer who designed Waterloo Bridge lived here for nearly three decades — and …

Stoney Street When stone paving was a luxury, this 17th-century street through a bishop’s garden w…

Surrey Road A Victorian street named for the county to the south, where working-class terraces still s…

Swan Street A Georgian street named after a lost inn, standing atop layers of Roman Londinium. Swan St…

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Talbot Road A signwriter’s blunder in 1676 turned Chaucer’s legendary Tabard Inn into the …

Tanner Street A street named for the leather workers who made Bermondsey the centre of London’s hi…

Tisdall Place A quiet residential street bearing the name of an 18th-century Walworth family, preserved …

Trinity Street A Georgian street named after a maritime charity, born from farmland in 1813 and built ove…

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Warner Road A Victorian street in Camberwell whose Samuel Lewis Trust Dwellings carry a blue plaque ho…

Weavers Lane A riverside lane in Bankside whose name echoes London’s textile heritage. The street…

West Lane A boundary lane on the western edge of Bermondsey’s old parish, pressed against one …

Weston Street A 19th-century landlord’s name on the frontage of a building that once traded a thir…

Wren Road A quiet Victorian street honouring the architect who rebuilt London after 1666.