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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.

109 streets published so far

Streets

109

Tier 1

23

Tier 2

23

Tier 3

63

Showing 109 streets

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Abbey Street A street that traces the outline of a vanished monastery. Where Bermondsey Abbey once domi…

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

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 …

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

Avonmouth Street Named after a Bristol port town, this Elephant and Castle street rose from 19th-century ma…

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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 The eastern boundary of Bankside, where medieval walls once held back the Thames. A short …

Bankside Where Shakespeare’s Globe stood and the Thames was London’s wildest shore&mdas…

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

Battle Bridge Lane A quiet lane beside Hay’s Galleria that preserves the footprint of a medieval abbey&…

Bear Gardens A cobbled lane named after Elizabethan blood sport—where thousands gathered to watch chain…

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

Becket Street Named after the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury, this quiet street echoes a tradition of…

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

Bedale Street A narrow lane renamed in 1891 after a Yorkshire market town, now hemmed in by railway viad…

Black Swan Yard A Bermondsey alley named for a Tudor inn, now a creative quarter in one of London’s …

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 The only bridge to London for centuries, where Chaucer's pilgrims gathered before walking …

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…

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Coldharbour Lane A Saxon shelter name became a vital artery connecting village to city. From medieval wayfa…

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

Fielding Street

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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…

Hopton Street A survivor of Georgian Bankside, named after a forgotten merchant whose charity still stan…

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

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

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

Knatchbull Road A Victorian street named after Kentish landowners who shaped nineteenth-century Peckham&rs…

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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…

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…

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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…

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

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…