This map originates from a large scale map of London compiled and engraved by Edward Weller F.R.G.S., issued in parts as supplements to the Weekly Dispatch newspaper during 1861 and 1862. Originally called Whitechapel Street, this street’s name changed to Brick Lane because it was a local centre for tile and brick manufacturers in the 15 th century. Cable Street As you might expect, the main industry in Limehouse’s Cable Street was cable, or rope, making. (fn. 242) The northern part of Saturday Market was called Butcher Row by 1336 (fn. According to author Lee Jackson, by the 1890s, the city's horses produced approximately 1,000 tons of dung a day. But there were plenty of other gangs fighting it … By 1747 Within North Bar was used as the name of the street, altered in the 19th century to North Bar Within or North Bar Street Within. Oxford Street to the north, Charing Cross Road to the east, Shaftesbury Avenue to the south and Regent Street to the west. Here’s a real treat.The National Library of Scotland’s Map Department, supported by David Rumsey, have taken some very high-resolution scans of the Ordnance Survey 1:1056 (that’s 60 inches to the mile!) Through the courtesy of Rootsweb, my entire Trade directories listing is now available as a searchable data base. This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London districts of Kennington and Lambeth.The areas have no formally defined boundaries – those utilised here are Westminster Bridge Road/St George’s Circus/London Road to the north, Newington Butts/Kennington Park Road to the east, Kennington Road and Black Prince Road to the south and the river Thames to the west. Please bear in mind that the "Present Name" often already existed, the "Former Name"being incorporated as a part, and in some cases has been changed again later. This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London district of Soho, in the City of Westminster.The following utilises the generally accepted boundaries of Soho viz. More recent edifices have also given their names to the street leading past them, thus I grew up in Red House Lane, Bexleyheath, Kent opposite The Red House built in 1860 by William Morris, leader of the 19th century Arts and Crafts Movement. You may have heard of the Bowery Boys, a notorious New York street gang of the mid-19th century. Harrowby Street – after Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby, early 19th century politician, by association with the Cato Street conspiracy at which he would have been killed had it succeeded Henrietta Place – after Henrietta Harley, Countess of Oxford and Countess Mortimer , daughter of Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne [88] [89] London Street name changes. Old to New Street names 1857 - 1929. The map consisted of nine sheets on a scale of 9⅜" to 1 Statute mile.This map predates Edward Stanford's Library Map of London (Hyde No. It includes 5,548 entries, reproducing the original entries in the directory, listing the names, addresses and occupations of a selection of major householders in London and Westminster. Horses drive traffic on London's Oxford Street in 1890. The Counties covered by this data base are the Pigot's Trade directories of 1830, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Durham, Huntingdon, Northampton, Northumberland, Oxford, Westmoreland, Wiltshire & Worcester.
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