Comments on: mes amis, je tiens à vous présenter, un répertoire des noms de rues de Londres

By: Carter Ayon

Carter Ayon — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:00:20 +0000

Major thanks for the blog post.Much thanks again. Fantastic.

By: CeliaD

CeliaD — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:25:36 +0000

Ribbon Dance Mews off Camberwell Grove SE5 makes me think of dancing round the May Pole and Morris Dancers, but I don’t know how it got its name.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:08:26 +0000

A couple of fairly strange names which are so well known you take them for granted:

Threadneedle Street
Coldharbour Lane

Also Petticoat Lane’s an odd name when you think about it.

There’s an interesting post on the Scottish road names in Poplar here:

http://eastlondonhistory.com/when-scotland-met-poplar/

….. a 1923 book about London’s road names here:

http://openlibrary.org/b/OL7091247M/Historic-streets-of-London

….. and if you’re interested I’m trying to work out the derivations of the road names of my home town here:

http://salisburyandstonehenge.net

Enjoying the blog….Matt

By: Jan Grensemann

Jan Grensemann — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:02:11 +0000

You mustn’t forget there is another London St. in Paddington W2, but that is an unspectacular one way too.

By: Joe the Apprentice Cabbie

Joe the Apprentice Cabbie — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:36:44 +0000

Mount Pleasant Crescent – just for the sound it makes

and also just the plain Mount Pleasant – the Royal Mail staff never look as if they think so

The Cut – Anything beginning with “The” sounds grandioise to me

Pudding Lane – No explaination needed!

and finally the scarily named St Mary Axe – she must have been a formidable lady!

By: Cabbie

Cabbie — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:56:17 +0000

Here’s a few roads with peculiar names to be getting on with:

Little Britain (No Matt Lucas or David Walliams)

Bleeding Heart Yard (named after an ancient religious symbol)

Crutched Friars (not as rude as it sounds, its an old form of cross)

Electric Avenue SW9 (first street with electric light)

Ogle Street W1 (place for lechery)

Rotten Row (was the first throughfare with light in England)

Undershaft (old term for a maypole)

French Ordinary Court (Ordinary is an old English word for eating)

By: battersea dog

battersea dog — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:49:16 +0000

petyward in chelsea and lavender sweep in battersea

By: Jules

Jules — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:49:27 +0000

In Battersea there’s a little corner full of references to Afghanistan – Afghan Road, Candahar Road, Khyber Road and Cabul Road. From the fact that the spelling is different to current accepted usage (Kabul, Kandahar etc), I’m guessing that these are fairly old street names, although I have no idea of their history – maybe some link with Britain’s 19th century military exploits in Afghanistan?

By: battersea dog

battersea dog — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:57:36 +0000

Chelsea police station is on the peculiar sounding Petyward and in sunny battersea we have a unusual name ending in Lavender Sweep

By: M@

M@ — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:56:41 +0000

Endlessly entertaining subject.

Hanging Sword Alley, near Fleet Street.
Turk’s Head Yard, near Faringdon

Oh, and there’s a Tessa Sanderson Close somewhere in the northern suburbs.

Dullest name has to be Avenue Road in St Johns Wood. Bor-ring.