Street names of the City of London

• Abchurch Lane and Abchurch Yard – after the adjacent St Mary Abchurch[1][2][3]
• Adam’s Court – thought to be for Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet, master of the Worshipful Company of Drapers and later Lord Mayor of London[4]
• Addle Hill – from an Old English word for prince (athling)[5][6][7]
• Addle Street – from an Old English word for filth/dung, presumably descriptive,[5] though also may be the same etymology as Addle Hill above[7]
• Alban Highwalk and St Albans Court – after the adjacent St Alban, Wood Street church, of which only the tower now remains[8]
• Albion Place (off London Wall)
• Albion Way
• Aldermanbury and Aldermanbury Square – the site of a burgh (enclosed settlement) of a Saxon-era alderman[9][10][11]
• Alderman’s Walk – formerly Dashwood's Walk, for Francis Dashwood, who lived here in the 18th century; it was changed when he became an alderman[9][11]
• Aldersgate Court and Aldersgate Street – The name Aldersgate is first recorded around 1000 in the form Ealdredesgate, i.e. "gate associated with a man named Ealdrād". The gate, constructed by the Romans in the 2nd or 3rd centuries when London Wall was constructed, probably acquired its name in the late Saxon period[12]
• Aldgate, Aldgate Avenue and Aldgate High Street – thought to be an alteration of ‘Old Gate’; others think it stems from ‘Ale Gate’ (after a local inn) or ‘All Gate’ (as it was open to all)[13][14][15][16][17][18]
• Allhallows Lane – after the church of All-Hallows-the-Great and Less, both destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666; the Great was rebuilt by Christopher Wren, but was demolished in 1894[19][20]
• Amen Corner and Amen Court – by association with the nearby St Paul’s Cathedral[21][22]
• America Square – laid out in 1767–1770 by George Dance the Younger and named in honour of the American colonies[23][22]
• Andrewes Highwalk – presumably after Lancelot Andrewes, rector of the nearby St Giles-without-Cripplegate Church
• Angel Court – named after a long demolished inn of this name[24][25]
• Angel Lane
• Angel Street – after a demolished inn of this name; formerly Angle Alley[24][25]
• Apothecary Street – after the nearby Worshipful Society of Apothecaries[24][26]
• Appold Street
• The Arcade (Liverpool Street) – presumably descriptive
• Arthur Street – unknown[27]
• Artillery Lane – this formerly led to the Tasel Close Artillery Yard, which stood here in the 17th–18th centuries[28][27]
• Artizan Street
• Ashentree Court – after the ashen trees formerly located here at the Whitefriars' monastery[29]
• Athene Place
• Austin Friars and Austin Friars Passage and Austin Friars Square – after Austin Friars, a medieval friary which stood here in the Medieval period[28][30]
• Ave Maria Lane – after the Hail Mary (Ave Maria), by association with the nearby St Paul’s Cathedral[21][30]
• The Avenue (Cutlers Gardens) – presumably descriptive

• Back Alley – presumably descriptive
• Back Passage – presumably descriptive
• Bakers Hall Court – after the nearby hall of the Worshipful Company of Bakers[31]
• Ball Court
• Baltic Street West – the streets here were built by a timber merchant circa 1810 who named them after trade-related activities; Baltic refers to the Baltic softwood trade[32][33]
• Barbon Alley – after Nicholas Barbon, 17th-century economist [34]
• Barley Mow Passage – after a former inn here of this name, possibly by reference to alcohol, or else a corruption of the nearby St Bartholomew's church and hospital[35]
• Barnard’s Inn – named after Lionel Barnard, owner of a town house (or ‘inn’) here in the mid-15th century[36]
• Bartholomew Close and Bartholomew Place – after St Bartholomew’s Priory, which stood here and is remembered in the names of the local hospital and two churches[37][38]
• Bartholomew Lane – after the former St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange church, demolished in 1840[37][39][40]
• Bartlett Court, Bartlett Street and Bartletts Passage – after Thomas Bartlett, court printer to Edward VI, who owned property here[41][42]
• Basinghall Avenue and Basinghall Street – thought to be after land owned here by the people of Basa or Basing (in Old Basing, Hampshire), or possibly after a mansion house of the Bassing (or Basing) family, who were prominent in the City beginning in the 13th century[37][43][44][42]
• Bassishaw Highwalk – after the Bassishaw ward in which it is located[42]
• Bastion Highwalk – presumably after the adjacent Roman bastion ruins
• Bear Alley – thought to be after a former inn of this name[45][46]
• Beech Gardens and Beech Street – after beech trees which formerly stood here; the name is an old one, recorded as ‘Bechestrete’ in the 13th century[47][48]
• Beehive Passage – after a former tavern here of this name[48]
• Bengal Court – presumably after the former British colony of Bengal
• Bell Court
• Bell Inn Yard – after a former inn of this name[49][50]
• Bell Wharf Lane – unknown, possibly after a former tavern of this name; formerly Emperor’s Head Lane, after an inn here[51][50]
• Ben Jonson Place – after Ben Jonson, 17th-century playwright and poet
• Bennet’s Hill – after the adjacent St Benet’s church[52]
• Bevis Marks – corruption of ‘Bury Marks’, after a former house on this site given to Bury St Edmunds Abbey in the 1100s; mark is thought to note a boundary here[53][54][55]
• Billiter Court and Billiter Street – after former ‘belzeter’ (bell foundry) located here[56][57][58]
• Birchin Lane – unknown, though suggested to come from the Old English ‘beord-ceorfere’ (bear carver i.e. a barbers); it has had several variation on this name in the past, including Berchervere, Berchenes and Birchen[56][55][59]
• Bishop’s Court
• Bishopsgate, Bishopsgate Arcade and Bishopsgate Churchyard – after one of the City gates that formerly stood here, thought to commemorate Saint Earconwald, Bishop of London in the 7th century[60][61]
• Blackfriars Bridge, Blackfriars Court, Blackfriars Lane, Blackfriars Passage and Blackfriars Underpass – after the former Dominican (or Black friars, after their robes) friary that stood here 1276–1538[62][63]
• Blomfield Street – after Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of London 1828–1856[64][65]
• Bloomberg Arcade – after its owners/developers Bloomberg L.P.
• Bolt Court – thought to be after a former tavern called the Bolt-in-Tun[66][67]
• Bond Court – after a 17th-century property developer of this name[68][69]
• Booth Lane
• Botolph Alley and Botolph Lane – after the St Botolph Billingsgate church which stood near here, destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666[68][39][70]
• Bouverie Street – after William Bouverie, 1st Earl of Radnor[71][72]
• Bow Churchyard and Bow Lane – after the adjacent St Mary-le-Bow church; it was formerly known as Hosier Lane (after the local stocking making trade), and prior to that Cordewanere Street (meaning ‘leather-workers’)[73][2][72]
• Brabant Court – thought to be after the Dutch/Belgian province of this name, though possibly a corruption of a personal name (prior to the 18th century it was known as Braben Court, and before that Brovens Court)[74]
• Brackley Street – after the Earls of Bridgewater, also called the Viscounts Brackley, who owned a house near here[74][75]
• Braidwood Passage – presumably after 19th-century fireman James Braidwood
• Brandon Mews
• Bread Street – after the bakery trade that formerly took place here[76][77][78]
• Bream’s Buildings – thought to be named for its 18th-century builder[78]
• Breton Highwalk – presumably after the 16th–17th-century poet Nicholas Breton
• Brewer’s Hall Gardens – after the adjacent Worshipful Company of Brewers hall
• Brick Court – as this was home to the first set of brick buildings in the area[79]
• Bride Court, Bride Lane, St Bride’s Avenue, St Bride’s Passage and St Bride Street – after the adjacent St Bride's Church[80][39][79]
• Bridewell Place – after the adjacent St Bride's Church and a well that was formerly located here in the early Middle Ages; the name was later given to Bridewell Palace (demolished in the 1860s[81][79]
• Bridgewater Highwalk, Bridgewater Square and Bridgewater Street – after the Earls of Bridgewater, also called the Viscounts Brackley, who owned a house near here[74][75]
• Britannic Highwalk
• Broadgate and Broadgate Circle – developed in the late 1980s, presumably named for the former Broad Street station on this site and the adjacent Bishopsgate
• Broad Lane, Broad Street Avenue, New Broad Street and Old Broad Street – simply a descriptive name, dating to the early Middle Ages; the northernmost section was formerly ‘New Broad Street’; however, this has now switched onto an adjacent sidestreet[82][83][84]
• Broken Wharf – this wharf fell into disrepair owing to a property dispute in the 14th century[85][86]
• Brown’s Buildings
• Brushfield Street – after Thomas Brushfield, Victorian-era representative for this area at the Metropolitan Board of Works; the westernmost section, here forming the boundary with Tower Hamlets, was formerly called Union Street[87][88]
• Bucklersbury and Bucklersbury Passage – after the Buckerel/Bucherel family who owned land here in the 1100s[87][89][90]
• Budge Row – formerly home to the drapery trade; a ‘budge/boge’ was a type of lamb’s wool[91][92][90]
• Bull's Head Passage – thought to be after an inn or shop of this name[93][90]
• Bunyan Court – after the author John Bunyan, who attended the nearby St Giles-without-Cripplegate church
• Burgon Street – after Dean Burgon of St Paul’s Cathedral; prior to 1885 it was called New Street[94]
• Bury Court and Bury Street – after a former house on this site given to Bury St Edmunds Abbey in the 1100s[95][96][55]
• Bush Lane – thought to be after a former inn of this name[95][97][98]
• Byward Street – after the adjacent Byward Tower of the Tower of London[99][98]

• Camomile Street – after the camomile formerly grown here for medicine[100][101]
• Canon Alley – presumably in reference to the adjacent St Paul’s Cathedral
• Cannon Street – a contraction of the 14th-century ‘Candlewick Street’, meaning a street where candle-makers were based[102][103]
• Capel Court – after William Capel, Lord Mayor of London in the early 16th century[104]
• Carlisle Avenue – unknown[105]
• Carmelite Street – after the Carmelite order (known as the White friars), who were granted land here by Edward I[106][107]
• Carter Court and Carter Lane – after the cartering trade that formerly took place here,[108][109] or possibly also after someone with this name[110]
• Carthusian Street – after the Carthusian monks who lived near here in the Middle Ages[111][112]
• Castle Baynard Street – after Castle Baynard which formerly stood here[108]
• Castle Court – after a former inn of this name[108]
• Catherine Wheel Alley – after a former inn of this name, which was named for the Catherine wheel on the coat of arms of the Worshipful Company of Turners[113][114]
• Cavendish Court – after the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, who owed a house near here in the 1600s[113][115]
• Chancery Lane – the former site of Edward III's office of the Master of the Rolls of Chancery[116][117][118]
• Change Alley – after the nearby Royal Exchange[116][119]
• Charterhouse Square and Charterhouse Street – Anglicisation of Chartreuse, from Grande Chartreuse, head monastery of the Carthusians in France; a nearby abbey was founded by monks of this order in 1371[120][121]
• Cheapside and Cheapside Passage – from ‘chepe’, an Old English word meaning 'market'; this was the western end of a market that stretched over the Eastcheap[122][123][121]
• Cheshire Court – after the adjacent Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub[124]
• Chiswell Street – either for old term meaning 'stony/gravelly earth',[125] or a corruption of 'Choice Well', denoting a source of clean water[55]
• Church Cloisters – after the adjacent St Mary-at-Hill church; Church Passage till 1938[126]
• Church Court – after the adjacent Temple Church
• Church Entry – after the former St Ann Blackfriars church which burned down in the 1666 fire[127][63]
• Circus Place – after the adjacent Finsbury Circus[128]
• Clements Lane and St Clement’s Court – after the adjacent St Clement's, Eastcheap church[39][129]
• Clerk’s Place
• Clifford’s Inn Passage – after an inn (townhouse) given to Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford by Edward II[130][131]
• Cloak Lane – unknown, though possibly from 'cloaca', an old word for a sewer; prior to the mid-17th century it was Horseshoebridge Street, after a bridge that stood here over the Walbrook[130][132]
• Cloth Court, Cloth Fair and Cloth Street – after a long-running cloth fair that was formerly held here[130][133]
• Clothier Street – after the former clothes market that operated here[130][133]
• Cobb’s Court
• Cock Hill – unknown, possibly from an old inn of this name[134]
• Cock Lane – thought to be after either cock rearing or cock fighting that formerly occurred here[135][136][134]
• Coleman Street and Coleman Street Buildings – possibly after a church of this name or a personal name,[137][138] or literally after the coalmen who formerly lived in this area in the Middle Ages[139]
• College Hill, College Street and Little College Lane – after the adjacent St Michael Paternoster Royal, which was created as a collegiate church by Richard Whittington in 1419; College Street was formerly Paternoster Street (meaning rosary makers and College Hill was Royal Street (a corruption of La Réole, France, where local wine merchants hailed from)[140][141][142]
• Compter Passage – presumably after the former Wood Street Compter
• Cooper’s Row – after an 18th-century property owner of this name; prior to this it was Woodruffe Lane, also thought to be after a property owner[143][144]
• Copthall Avenue, Copthall Buildings and Copthall Close – after a former ‘copt hall’ (crested hall) that stood here[145][144]
• Corbet Court – after a local 17th-century property developer[145]
• Cornhill – thought to be after the corn formerly grown or sold here[145][146][147]
• Cousin Lane – after either Joanna or William Cousin, the first a local landowner, the latter a 14th-century sheriff[148][149][150]
• Cowper’s Court – after the Cowper family, local landowners[151]
• Crane Court – formerly Two Crane Court, possibly after a coat of arms of one of the local landowning families[151]
• Creechurch Lane and Creechurch Place – after the former Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate near here; it was also named Christ Church, later corrupted to ‘Creechurch’, and later also given to St Katharine Cree church[152][153]
• Creed Court and Creed Lane – by association with the nearby St Paul’s Cathedral[21][153]
• Crescent – thought to be first crescent-shaped street in London[128]
• Cripplegate Street – after the former Cripplegate that stood here, referring either to a crepel (Latin for ‘covered way’) or the association with the nearby St Giles-without-Cripplegate church (St Giles is the patron saint of cripples)[152][154]
• Cromwell Highwalk and Cromwell Place – presumably after Oliver Cromwell, who was married in the nearby St Giles-without-Cripplegate Church in 1620
• Crosby Square – after Crosby House, built for Sir John Crosby, 15th-century merchant and politician[155][156]
• Cross Keys Square – after a house or inn called Cross Keys that stood here in Tudor times[155][156]
• Cross Lane – descriptive; it was formerly Fowle Lane (literally ‘foul’)[155][157][156]
• Crosswall – descriptive, as it crosses the boundary of the city wall[155][158]
• Crown Court
• Crown Office Row – after the Clerks of the Crown Office formerly located here[159]
• Crutched Friars – after the Crutched Friars, a religious order who had a friary here in the early Middle Ages which was dissolved by Henry VIII[160][161][159]
• Cullum Street – after either Sir John Cullum, 17th-century sheriff who owned land here,[160] or Thomas Cullum[162]
• Cunard Place – after the Cunard Line headquarters, formerly located here[162]
• Cursitor Street – after the Cursitors’ office, established here in the 16th century[163][162]
• Custom House Walk – after the adjacent Custom House
• Cutler Street and Cutlers Gardens Arcade – after the Worshipful Company of Cutlers, who owned land here[163][164]

• Dark House Walk – after a former inn here called the Darkhouse; it was formerly Dark House Lane, and prior to that Dark Lane[165]
• Dean’s Court – after the Dean of St Paul’s[166][167]
• Defoe Place – after the author Daniel Defoe
• Devonshire Row and Devonshire Square – after the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, who owed a house near here in the 1600s[168][169]
• Distaff Lane – formerly Little Distaff Lane, as it lay off the main Distaff Lane (now absorbed into Cannon Street); in Medieval times the area was home to a distaff industry[170][171][172]
• Doby Court – thought to be after a local landowner; prior to 1800 called Maidenhead Court[170]
• Dorset Buildings and Dorset Rise – Salisbury Court, London home of the bishops of Salisbury, formerly stood near here; after the Dissolution of the Monasteries it passed to Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset[173][174]
• Dowgate Hill – after a former watergate leading to the Thames here; it was formerly Duuegate, Old English for ‘dove’ (possibly a personal name), or possibly simply from the word 'down'[175][176][177]
• Drapers Gardens – after the adjacent Worshipful Company of Drapers building[178][179]
• Dukes Place – after Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, who inherited a house near here from his uncle Thomas Audley, who had gained the land following the Dissolution of the Monasteries[180][181]
• Dunster Court – corruption of St Dunstan’s Court, as it lay in the parish of St Dunstan-in-the-East[180]
• Dyer’s Buildings – after almshouses owned by the Worshipful Company of Dyers formerly located here[182]

• Eastcheap – as it was the eastern end of the former Cheapside market[183][182]
• East Harding Street and West Harding Street – after local 16th-century property owner Agnes Harding, who bequeathed the surrounding area to the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths for the upkeep of widows[184][185]
• East Passage – presumably descriptive
• East Poultry Avenue and West Poultry Avenue – after the meat trade here at Smithfield Market[186]
• Eldon Street – after John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor in the early 19th century, or a tavern named after him[187][188]
• Elm Court – after the elm trees in the Temple Gardens[189][190]
• Essex Court – presumably after the earls of Essex, who owned a townhouse near here (hence the nearby Essex Street)[191][192]
• Exchange Arcade, Exchange Place and Exchange Square

• Falcon Court – after a former inn or shop of this name[193][194]
• Falcon Highwalk
• Fann Street – thought to be named after a local property owner or tradesman of this name[195][196]
• Farringdon Street – from Sir William or Nicholas de Farnedon/Faringdon, local sheriffs or aldermen in the 13th century[197][198][199]
• Fen Court, Fenchurch Avenue, Fenchurch Buildings, Fenchurch Place and Fenchurch Street – after a fen which was formerly located near here, and possibly the former St Gabriel Fenchurch[197][200][201]
• Fetter Lane and New Fetter Lane – formerly Fewter Lane, a Medieval term for an idler,[197][202] stemming originally from the Old French 'faitour' (lawyer)[203]
• Finch Lane – after Robert Fink (some sources: Aelfwin Finnk), who paid for the rebuilding of the former St Benet Fink Church in the 13th century; the church was destroyed in the 1666 Fire, and its replacement demolished in the 1840s[204][205]
• Finsbury Avenue, Finsbury Avenue Square, Finsbury Circus – after a Saxon burgh (settlement) owned by someone called Finn[204][198][206]
• Fish Street Hill, Fish Wharf and Old Fish Street Hill – after the former local fish trade here, centred on Billingsgate Fish Market[207][208][209]
• Fishmongers Hall Wharf – after the adjacent Fishmongers' Hall[204]
• Fleet Place, Fleet Street and Old Fleet Lane – after the now covered river Fleet which flowed near here[210][211][212]
• Fore Street and Fore Street Avenue – named after its location in front of the City walls[213][214][215]
• Fort Street – after the former armoury and artillery grounds located near here[213]
• Foster Lane – corruption of Vedast, after the adjacent St Vedast Church[213][216][182]
• Founders’ Court – after the Worshipful Company of Founders, who were formerly based here[217][218]
• Fountain Court – after the 17th-century fountain located here[218]
• Frederick’s Place – after John Frederick, Lord Mayor of London in 1661[219][218]
• French Ordinary Court – former site of an ‘ordinary’ (cheap eating place) for the local French community in the 17th century[219][220]
• Friar Street – after the former Dominican friary that stood here 1276–1538[219][221]
• Friday Street – after the former local fish trade here, with reference to the popularity of fish on this day owing to the Catholic Friday Fast; the street formerly extended all the way to Cheapside[222][223][221]
• Frobisher Crescent – after the explorer Martin Frobisher, who is buried in the nearby St Giles-without-Cripplegate
• Fruiterers Passage – after the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers, formerly based here[224]
• Furnival Street – after the nearby Furnival’s Inn, owned by Sir Richard Furnival in the late 1500s[225][226]
• Fye Foot Lane – corruption of ‘five foot’, after its original breadth; formerly Finamour Lane, after an individual with this surname[227][228]

• Garden Court – after the adjacent Temple Gardens[229]
• Gardner’s Lane – unknown, though thought to be after a local property owner; formerly called Dunghill Lane in the 18th century[230][229]
• Garlick Hill – as it led to the former Garlick Hythe, a wharf where garlic was unloaded from ships[231][229]
• George Yard – after the adjacent George and Vulture pub,[232] or another pub of this name formerly located here[233]
• Giltspur Street – thought to be the former location of a spurriers[234][235][236]
• Gloucester Court
• Godliman Street – thought to be after Godalming, Surrey, a family bearing this name, or the selling of godalmins (a type of skin/leather); it was formerly Paul’s Chain, after the chain placed here to prevent access to St Paul’s churchyard[237][238]
• Golden Lane – formerly Goldynglane, thought to be after a local property owner of the name Golding/Golda[237][238]
• Goldsmith Street – after the nearby Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths[239][240]
• Goodman’s Court and Goodman’s Yard – thought to be after the Goodman family, local farmers in the 16th century[239][241]
• Gophir Lane – formerly Gofaire Lane, thought to be for Elias Gofaire, 14th-century property owner[242][243]
• Goring Street – unknown; prior to 1885 known as Castle Court, after a former inn[242]
• Goswell Road – there is dispute over the origins of the name, with some sources claiming the road was named after a nearby garden called 'Goswelle' or 'Goderell' which belonged to Robert de Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk,[244] whilst others state it derives from "God's Well", and the traditional pagan practice of well-worship,[245] and others a 'Gode Well' formerly located here[246]
• Gough Square – after Richard Gough, wool merchant, local landowners in the early 1700s[242][246]
• Gracechurch Street – formerly Garscherch Street, Grass Church Street and Gracious Street, presumably after a local church (mostly likely St Benet Gracechurch and/or grassy area[247][248][249]
• Grand Avenue – presumably descriptive[250]
• Grant's Quay Wharf
• Gravel Lane – descriptive, after its gravelly texture[251][252]
• Great Bell Alley – formerly just Bell Alley, it was named for a former inn[251][253]
• Great Eastern Walk (Liverpool Street station) – presumably descriptive, or after the Great Eastern Railway company
• Great New Street, Little New Street, Middle New Street, New Street Court, New Street Square – built in the mid-1600s, and named simply as they were then new[254][185]
• Great St Helen’s and St Helen’s Place – after the adjacent St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate and former priory here of the same name[255][256]
• Great St Thomas Apostle – after the St Thomas the Apostle church, destroyed in the Great Fire[255][256]
• Great Swan Alley – after a former inn here called The White Swan[257][258]
• Great Tower Street – after the adjacent Tower of London[257][258]
• Great Trinity Lane, Little Trinity Lane and Trinity Lane – after the former Holy Trinity the Less church, demolished 1871[257][258]
• Great Winchester Street – following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the nearby Austin Friars was acquired by Sir William Powlet, Lord Treasurer; his son Lord Winchester renamed it for himself[257]
• Green Arbour Court – thought to be from a 17th-century inn[257]
• The Green Yard
• Gresham Street – after Thomas Gresham, merchant and founder the Royal Exchange; the western part of this street was formerly known as Lad Lane, and the eastern part Cat Eaton Street (named literally after the cats here); they were amalgamated in 1845[259][260][261]
• Greyfriars Passage – after the Franciscan order, also known as the Grey friars, who owned land here in the Middle Ages[262][263]
• Greystoke Place – after a local 18th-century property owner of this name; prior to this it was Black Raven Alley, after a local inn[264][263]
• Grocer’s Hall Court and Grocer’s Hall Gardens – after the adjacent Worshipful Company of Grocers[263]
• Groveland Court
• Guildhall Buildings and Guildhall Yard – after the adjacent Guildhall[265]
• Guinness Court
• Gunpowder Square
• Gutter Lane – corruption of Guthrun/Godrun, thought to be after an early Danish landowner[266][267]

• Half Moon Court – after a former inn of this name[268][267]
• Hammett Street – after its 18th-century builder Benjamin Hammett, also Lord Mayor of London in 1797[269]
• Hanging Sword Alley – thought to be after a former inn, shop or fencing school of this name[268][270]
• Hanseatic Walk – presumably in reference to Hanseatic League
• Hare Place – after Hare House which formerly stood here; formerly Ram Alley, a noted criminal area, prompting the name change[258]
• Harp Alley – thought to be after a former 17th-century inn of this name[271][272]
• Harp Lane – after the Harp brewhouse which formerly stood here[271][51][272]
• Harrow Place – thought to be named for a harrow-making shop formerly located here after a former inn of this name[273][274]
• Hart Street – unknown, formerly Herthstrete and Hertstrete, possibly after the hearthstone trade here[275][235][274]
• Hartshorn Alley – after the Hart’s Horn inn which formerly stood here[275][276]
• Haydon Street and Haydon Walk – after John Heydon, Master of the Ordnance 1627–42, who lived near here[277][276]
• Hayne Street – after Haynes timber merchants and carpenters, who owned a shop here after a former inn of this name[277][278]
• Hen and Chicken Court – after a former inn(s) here of this name[279]
• Heneage Lane and Heneage Place – after Thomas Heneage, who acquired a house here after the dissolution of the nearby abbey[280][55]
• High Holborn, Holborn, Holborn Circus and Holborn Viaduct – thought to be from ‘hollow bourne’ i.e. the river Fleet which formerly flowed in a valley near here. The ‘High’ stems from the fact that rode led away from the river to higher ground. 'Circus' is a British term for a road junction, and 'viaduct' is a self-explanatory term.[281][282][283]
• High Timber Street – after a former timber hythe (wharf), recorded here from the late 13th century[284][285][286]
• Hind Court
• Hogarth Court – the artist William Hogarth formerly lodged here at a local tavern[287][288]
• Honey Lane – after honey that was formerly sold here as art of the Cheapside market[289][290][291]
• Hood Court
• Hope Square
• Hosier Lane – after the former hosiery trade based here[292][293][294]
• Houndsditch – generally thought to be literally after a local ditch where dead dogs were dumped;[295] however, others think it may refer to a nearby kennels[292][296][297]
• Huggin Court and Huggin Hill – formerly Hoggen Lane, as hogs were kept here[298][291][297]
• Hutton Street

• Idol Lane – formerly Idle Lane, it may be a personal name or denote local idlers[299][300]
• India Street – after the former warehouses here of the East India Company; prior to 1913 it was George Street[299][301]
• Inner Temple Lane – after the adjacent Inner Temple[302]
• Ireland Yard – after haberdasher William Ireland, who owned a house here in the 1500s[303][304]
• Ironmonger Lane – an ancient name, after the former ironmongery trade here[303][305][304]

• Jewry Street – after the former Jewish community which was based here; formerly Poor Jewry Street[306][307][308][309]
• John Carpenter Street – after John Carpenter, Town Clerk of London in the mid-15th century[306][310]
• John Milton Passage – after the author John Milton
• John Trundle Highwalk – after John Trundle, 16th–17th-century author and book seller
• John Wesley Highwalk – after John Wesley, founder of Methodism
• Johnsons Court – after a local 16th-century property owning family of this name; the connection with Samuel Johnson is coincidental[283][310]

• Keats Place
• Kennett Wharf Lane – after its late 18th-century owner[311]
• Kinghorn Street – formerly King Street, renamed in 1885 to avoid confusion with many other streets of this name[308][312]
• Kingscote Street – formerly King Edward Street (for Edward VI), renamed in 1885 to avoid confusion with the street of this name off Newgate Street[308][312]
• King Street – built after the Great Fire and named for Charles II[313][314]
• King Edward Street – named for Edward VI, who turned the adjacent Greyfriars monastery into a hospital; it was formerly known as Stinking Lane[308][315][312]
• King William Street – named for William IV, reigning monarch when the street was built in 1829–1835[316][315][314]
• King’s Arms Yard – named after a former inn of this name[308][314]
• King’s Bench Walk – named for the adjacent housing for lawyers of the King’s Bench[308][317]
• Knightrider Court and Knightrider Street – thought to be literally a street where knights used to ride[318][319][320]

• Lakeside Terrace – descriptive
• Lambert Jones Mews – after Lambert Jones, Victorian-era councilman
• Lambeth Hill – corruption of Lambert/Lambart, local property owner[321][322][323]
• Langthorn Court – named after a former property owner of this name[324]
• Lauderdale Place – named for the Earls of Lauderdale, who owned a house here[325]
• Laurence Pountney Hill and Laurence Pountney Lane – after the former St Laurence Pountney church, built by Sir John de Pulteney but destroyed in the Great Fire[326][327][328]
• Lawrence Lane – after the nearby St Lawrence Jewry church[329][216][330]
• Leadenhall Market, Leadenhall Place and Leadenhall Street – after the Leaden Hall, a house owned by Sir Hugh Neville in the 14th century[331][141][332]
• Lime Street – Medieval name denoting a place of lime kilns[333][334][335]
• Limeburner Lane – after the lime burning trade formerly located here[305]
• Lindsey Street – unknown[335]
• Little Britain – thought to be after Robert le Bretoun, 13th-century local landowner, probably from Brittany[333][336][337]
• Little Somerset Street
• Liverpool Street – built in 1829 and named for Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister 1812–1827[338][339]
• Lloyd’s Avenue – as the headquarters of the Lloyd's Register (named for Lloyd's Coffee House) were located here[340]
• Lombard Court and Lombard Lane – from Lombardy, as this area was home to a community from there; the name was altered from Lombard Street to avoid confusion with the other street of this name[341][342]
• Lombard Street – from the wool merchants from Lombardy who traded and lent money here from the 13th century onwards[341][343][342]
• London Bridge – self-explanatory; for centuries this was the only bridge crossing the Thames[344]
• London Street and New London Street – named after local 18th-century property owner John London, not the city; the ‘New’ section was a later extension[328][344]
• London Wall – after the city wall which formerly ran along this route (though there are still some ruins visible)[345][346][344]
• Long Lane – a descriptive name[347][344]
• Lothbury – meaning ‘burgh’ of Lotha/Hlothere, a 7th-century name[348][89][349]
• Lovat Street – thought to be either a corruption of Lucas Lane, after a local landowner, or for Lord Lovat, local politician; it was formerly ‘Love Lane’, probably a euphemism for prostitution, and changed to avoid confusion with the other city lane of this name[350][349]
• Love Lane – unknown, but possible with reference to the prostitution that occurred here in the 16th century; it was formerly Roper Lane, probably after the rope making trade, but possibly after a person with this surname[350][351][349]
• Lower Thames Street and Upper Thames Street – thought to mark the bank of the Thames in Roman/Saxon times[352][353][349]
• Ludgate Broadway, Ludgate Circus, Ludgate Hill and Ludgate Square – the former city gate of this name that formerly stood here, thought to an Old English term for ‘postern-gate’[350][354][355]

• Mac’s Place
• Magpie Alley – after a former inn here of this name[340][356]
• Mansell Street – named after either local landowner Sir William Leman, 2nd Baronet for his wife Mary Mansell[357] or Mansel Leman, also a local property owner in the 17th century[358]
• Mansion House Place and Mansion House Street – after the adjacent Mansion House[359]
• Mark Lane – unknown, though possibly a corruption of ‘Martha’; formerly known as Martlane and Marke Lane[360][361][362]
• Martin Lane – after the former St Martin Orgar church, demolished (save for the tower) in 1820[363][327][364][365]
• Mason’s Avenue – after the Worshipful Company of Masons, whose headquarters formerly stood here[363]
• Middle Street – descriptive[366]
• Middlesex Passage – formerly Middlesex Court, thought to be after Middlesex House which formerly stood here[367]
• Middlesex Street (Petticoat Lane) and Petticoat Square – as this street forms the boundary of the city with the county of Middlesex, with the alternative name Petticoat stemming from the clothes market formerly held here; prior to 1602 it was known as Hog Lane after the animal[367][368][366]
• Middle Temple Lane – after the adjacent Middle Temple[367][366]
• Milk Street – after the milk and dairy trade that formerly occurred here in connection with the nearby Cheapside market[369][370][371]
• Millennium Bridge – as it was built to commemorate the 2000 millennium
• Milton Court and Milton Street – after an early 19th-century lease owner of this name, or possibly the poet John Milton; prior to this it was Grub/Grubbe Street, after the former owner, or perhaps to a 'grube' (drain)[372][373][374]
• Mincing Lane – after ‘minchins/mynecen’, a term for the nuns who formerly held property here prior to 1455[372][375][376]
• Minerva Walk
• Miniver Place – after the type of fur, named by connection with the nearby Skinner's Hall[377]
• Minories – after a former church/convent here of the Little Sisters (Sorores Minores) nuns[372][161][378]
• Minster Court and Minster Pavement
• Mitre Square and Mitre Street – after the former Mitre Inn which stood near here[372][276]
• Modern Court
• Monkwell Square – after the former street here also of this name, variously recorded as Mogwellestrate or Mukewellestrate, and thought to refer to a well owned by one Mucca[379][380][381]
• Montague Street – after Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, who owned a mansion here[382]
• Monument Street – after the nearby Monument to the Great Fire of London[382][383]
• Moorfields and Moorfield Highwalk – after the marshy moorlands that formerly stood here[382]
• Moorgate and Moorgate Place – after the gate, leading to the marshy moorlands beyond, that formerly stood here[382][384]
• Moor Lane and Moor Place – after the marshy moorlands that formerly stood here[382][385][384]
• Muscovy Street – after the Muscovy Company of Elizabethan times, or the Russian merchants formerly based here[386][387]

• Nettleton Court
• Nevill Lane
• New Bell Yard
• New Bridge Street – named in 1765 as it leads to the then new Blackfriars Bridge[388][389]
• Newbury Street – formerly New Street, renamed 1890 to avoid confusion with other streets of this name[388][390]
• Newcastle Close – either after a former inn called the Castle located here,[388] or after the city, with reference to the coal trade here[391]
• Newcastle Court
• New Change, New Change Passage and Old Change Court – formerly Old Change, and named for a former mint and gold exchange here[388][392]
• New Court – built circa 1700 and named simply because it was then new[393]
• Newgate Street – after a new gate built here in the 1000s; the eastern part of this street was formerly Bladder Street, after the bladder selling trade here[394][395][390]
• Newman’s Court – after Lawrence Newman, who leased land here in the 17th century[392]
• New Street – named simply as it was new when first built[254][390]
• New Union Street – named as it united Moor Lane and Moorfields; it was formerly Gunn Alley[254]
• Nicholas Lane and Nicholas Passage – after the former St Nicholas Acons church, destroyed in the Great Fire[254][396][397]
• Noble Street – after Thomas de Noble, local 14th-century property developer[398][397]
• Northumberland Alley – after Northumberland House, house of the Earls of Northumberland, which formerly stood here[399][400]
• Norton Folgate – the former word a corruption of ‘North Town’, and the latter after the local Folgate family[399]
• Norwich Street – unknown; formerly Norwich Court, and prior to that Magpie Yard, probably from a local inn[400]
• Nun Court – thought to be after a local builder/property owner[401]

• Oat Lane – as oats were formerly sold here in the Middle Ages[402][291][403]
• Octagon Arcade (Broadgate)
• Old Bailey – after a bailey fortification that formerly stood here[82][404][403]
• Old Billingsgate Walk – after the former watergate of this name, the derivation of ‘Billings’ in unknown[58]
• Old Jewry – after a Saxon-era settlement of Jews here, thought to be termed ‘Old’ following the Edict of Expulsion of all Jews from England by Edward I[405][307][406]
• Old Mitre Court – after a former tavern of this name here[405][406]
• Old Seacole Lane – thought to be after the coal trade that came from the sea and up the river Fleet here[407][408][409]
• Old Watermen's Walk
• Outwich Street – after either Oteswich/Ottewich, meaning ‘Otho’s dwelling’, a name for this area of London in the early Middle Ages[410] or the former St Martin Outwich church, named for the Outwich family, demolished 1874[411]
• Oystergate Walk – after a watergate here, and the oyster trade[412]
• Oxford Court – after a former house here owned by the Earls of Oxford[410][413]

• Pageantmaster Court
• Pancras Lane – after St Pancras, Soper Lane church which stood here until destroyed in the Great Fire; it was formerly Needlers Lane, after the needle making trade here[414][305][415]
• Panyer Alley – after a Medieval brewery here called the ‘panyer’ (basket)[414][416][417]
• Paternoster Lane, Paternoster Row and Paternoster Square – after the paternoster (rosary) makers who formerly worked here[418][419][420]
• Paul’s Walk
• Pemberton Row – after James Pemberton, Lord Mayor of London in 1611[421]
• Pepys Street – after 17th-century diarist Samuel Pepys, who lived and worked here[422][423]
• Peterborough Court – after the abbots of Peterborough, who prior to the Dissolution of the Monasteries had a house here[424][425]
• Peter’s Hill – after St Peter, Paul's Wharf church, which formerly stood here until destroyed in the 1666 fire[424][425]
• Petty Wales – unknown, but possibly after a Welsh community formerly based here[426]
• Philpot Lane – commemorates prominent local family the Philpots; originally probably after John Philpot, 14th-century grocer[427][428][429]
• Pilgrim Street – thought to be a former route for pilgrims to St Paul's cathedral; formerly known as Stonecutters Alley and Little Bridge Street[430]
• Pindar Street – after Paul Pindar, 14th–16th-century diplomat, who had a house here[431][430]
• Pinner’s Passage
• Plaisterers Highwalk – after the nearby Worshipful Company of Plaisterers
• Plantation Lane
• Playhouse Yard – after the Blackfriars Playhouse, which stood here in the 17th century[41][432]
• Pleydell Court and Pleydell Street – formerly Silver Street, it was renamed in 1848 by association with the neighbouring Bouverie Street; the Bouverie family were by this time known as the Pleydell-Bouveries[41][72]
• Plough Court – thought to be either from an inn of this name, or an ironmongers; formerly Plough Yard[41]
• Plough Place – after the Plough/Plow, a 16th-century eating place located here[41][432]
• Plumtree Court – thought to be after either literally a plumtree, or else an inn of this name[41][432]
• Pope’s Head Alley – after the Pope’s Head Tavern which formerly stood here, thought to stem from the 14th-century Florentine merchants who were in Papal service[433][434]
• Poppins Court – shortening of Popinjay Court, meaning a parrot; it is thought to stem from the crest of Cirencester Abbey (which featured the bird), who owned a town house here[435][436]
• Portsoken Street – after ‘port-soke’, as it was a soke near a port (gate) of the City[437][438]
• Post Office Court – after the General Post Office which formerly stood near here[437][439]
• Poultry – after the poultry which was formerly sold at the market here[437][440][441]
• Priest’s Court – with allusion to the adjacent St Vedast Church[442]
• Primrose Hill – thought to be named after a builder of this name, or possibly the primroses which formerly grew here; formerly called Salisbury Court, as it approaches Salisbury Square[443][442]
• Primrose Street – thought to be named after a builder of this name, or possibly the primroses which formerly grew here[443][442]
• Prince’s Street – named in reference to the adjacent King and Queen Streets[444][445]
• Printers Inn Court – after the printing industry which formerly flourished here
• Printer Street – after the printing industry which formerly flourished here[446][445]
• Priory Court
• Prudent Passage
• Pudding Lane – from the former term ‘pudding’ meaning animals' entrails, which were dumped here in Medieval times by local butchers; it was formerly Rothersgate, after a watergate located here[446][447][448]
• Puddle Dock – thought to be either descriptive (after the water here), or named for a local wharf owner of this name[449][450]
• Pump Court – after a former pump located here[450]

• Quality Court – a descriptive name, as it was superior when built compared with the surrounding streets[451]
• Queenhithe – formerly Ethelredshythe, after its founder King Æthelred the Unready, and hythe meaning a wharf/landing place; it was renamed after its later owner Matilda of Scotland, wife of Henry I[452][453]
• Queen Isabella Way –
• Queens Head Passage – after a former house here called the Queens Head, demolished 1829[454]
• Queen Street and Queen Street Place – named in honour of Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II[454][315][455]
• Queen Victoria Street – built in 1871 and named for the then reigning monarch[456][315][453]

• Rangoon Street – after the former warehouses here of the East India Company, Burma then been part of British India[299][457]
• Red Lion Court – after a former inn of this name[458][459]
• Regent Street – after the Prince Regent
• Rising Sun Court – after the adjacent pub of this name[460]
• Robin Hood Court – thought to be after a former inn of this name[461]
• Rolls Buildings and Rolls Passage – the former site of a house containing the rolls of Chancery[462][463]
• Rood Lane – after a former rood (cross) set up at St Margaret Pattens in the early 16th century; it became an object of veneration and offering, which helped pay for the repair of the church, but was torn down in 1558 as an item of excessive superstition[464][465][466]
• Ropemaker Street – descriptive, after the rope making trade formerly located here[464][466]
• Rose Alley – after a former inn of this name[467]
• Rose and Crown Court
• Rose Street – after a former tavern of this name here; it was formerly Dicer Lane, possibly after either a dice maker here, or a corruption of ‘ditcher’[468]
• Royal Exchange Avenue and Royal Exchange Buildings – after the adjacent Royal Exchange[469]
• Russia Row – possibly to commemorate Russia's entry into the Napoleonic wars[470]

• St Alphage Garden and St Alphage Highwalk – after the adjacent St Alphege London Wall church, now surviving only in ruins[471][472]
• St Andrew Street – after the adjacent St Andrew’s Church[472]
• St Andrew’s Hill – after the adjacent St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe church[472]
• St Benet’s Place – after the former St Benet Gracechurch which stood near here; destroyed in the Great Fire, its replacement was then demolished in 1868[80][246]
• St Botolph Row and St Botolph Street – after the adjacent St Botolph's Aldgate church
• St Clare Street – after a former church/convent here of the Little Sisters of St Clare[473][378]
• St Dunstan’s Alley, St Dunstan’s Hill and St Dunstan’s Lane – after the former St Dunstan-in-the-East church, largely destroyed in the Blitz and now a small garden[216][474]
• St Dunstan’s Court – after the nearby St Dunstan-in-the-West church[474]
• St Georges Court – after the former St George Botolph Lane church nearby, demolished in 1904
• St Giles Terrace – after the adjacent St Giles-without-Cripplegate church
• St James’s Passage – after St James Duke's Place church, demolished 1874[475]
• St Katherine’s Row – after the St Katherine Coleman church, demolished in 1926[476][477]
• St Margaret’s Close – after the adjacent St Margaret Lothbury church
• St Martin’s le Grand – after a former church of this name here, demolished in 1538[478][479][480]
• St Mary at Hill – after the St Mary-at-Hill church here[481][482][483]
• St Mary Axe – after the former Church of St Mary Axe here, demolished in the 1500s[481][479][483]
• St Michael’s Alley – after the adjacent St Michael, Cornhill church[483]
• St Mildred’s Court – after the former St Mildred, Poultry church, demolished 1872[481][483]
• St Olave’s Court – after the former St Olave Old Jewry church here, of which only the tower remains[484][483]
• St Paul’s Churchyard – after the adjacent St Paul’s Cathedral; the churchyard was formerly far more extensive, but has since been built over[485][486]
• St Peter’s Alley – after the adjacent St Peter upon Cornhill church[486]
• St Swithins Lane – after the former St Swithin, London Stone, largely destroyed in the Blitz and later demolished[487][396][488]
• Salisbury Court and Salisbury Square – after the London house of the bishops of Salisbury, located here prior to the Reformation[489][490]
• Salters Court – after the former hall of the Worshipful Company of Salters, moved in 1600[489][413]
• Salter’s Hall Court – after the former hall of the Worshipful Company of Salters, destroyed in the Blitz[489][413]
• Sandy’s Row – after a builder or property owner of this name[491]
• Saracens Head Yard – after a former inn of this name[491][492]
• Savage Gardens – after Thomas Savage, who owned a house here in the 1620s[493][492]
• Scott’s Lane
• Seething Lane – formerly Shyvethenestrat and Sivethenelane, deriving from Old English sifetha, meaning chaff/siftings, after the local corn threshing[494][495][496]
• Serjeants Inn – after the former Serjeant's Inn located here before the Blitz[497][496]
• Sermon Lane – thought to be after Adam la Sarmoner, 13th-century landowner[497][498][499]
• Shafts Court – named after a maypole (or ‘shaft’) that formerly stood nearby at the junction of Leadenhall Street and St Mary Axe[500]
• Sherborne Lane – earlier Shirebourne Lane, alteration of the Medieval Shitteborelane, in reference to a public privy here[501][502][503]
• Ship Tavern Passage – after the nearby Ship tavern[504]
• Shoe Lane – as this lane formerly led to a shoe-shaped landholding/field[505][506][504]
• Shorter Street
• Silk Street – thought to be named for its late 18th-century builder, or the silk trade formerly located here[507][508]
• Sise Lane – as it formerly led to St Benet Sherehog church, which was dedicated to St Osyth (later corrupted to Sythe, then Sise)[507][396][508]
• Skinners Lane – after the fur trade that was former prevalent here; it was formerly Maiden Lane, after a local inn or shop[507][509][377]
• Smithfield Street and West Smithfield – derives from the Old English ‘smooth-field’, a series of fields outside the City walls[510][377][377]
• Snow Hill and Snow Hill Court – formerly Snore Hill or Snowrehill, exact meaning unknown[510][511][512]
• Southampton Buildings – after Southampton House which formerly stood here, built for the bishops of Lincoln in the 12th century and later acquired by the earls of Southampton[510]
• South Place and South Place Mews – named as it is south of Moorfields[513][514]
• Southwark Bridge – as it leads to Southwark[515]
• Speed Highwalk – after John Speed, Stuart-era mapmaker, who is buried in the nearby St Giles-without-Cripplegate
• Staining Lane – from Saxon-era ‘Staeninga haga’, meaning place owned by the people of Staines[516][517][518]
• Staple Inn and Staple Inn Buildings – after the adjacent Staple Inn[509][518]
• Star Alley – after a former inn here of this name[519]
• Stationer’s Hall Court – after the adjacent hall of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers[520][521]
• Steelyard Passage – after the Hanseatic League Base, now under Cannon St. Station
• Stew Lane – after a former stew (hot bath) here[522][519]
• Stonecutter Street – after the former stonecutting trade that took place here[523][521]
• Stone House Court – after a former medieval building here called the Stone House[521]
• Stoney Lane – simply a descriptive name, streets typically being mud tracks in former times[524][521]
• Suffolk Lane – after a former house here belonging to the dukes of Suffolk[525][526][527]
• Sugar Bakers Court – presumably descriptive
• Sugar Quay Walk – presumably descriptive
• Sun Court
• Sun Street and Sun Street Passage – after a former inn of this name[525]
• Swan Lane – after a former inn here called the Olde Swanne; formerly Ebbgate, after a watergate here[528][177]
• Swedeland Court – after the former Swedish community based here[529][528]

• Talbot Court – after a former inn of this name (or 'Tabard')[530][529]
• Tallis Street – after the 16th-century composer Thomas Tallis, by connection with the adjacent former Guildhall School of Music and Drama[531][532]
• Telegraph Street – renamed (from Bell Alley, after a former inn) when the General Post Office’s telegraph department opened there[533][518][534]
• Temple Avenue and Temple Lane – after the adjacent Temple legal district[533][535]
• The Terrace (off King’s Bench Walk) – presumably descriptive
• Thavies Inn – after a house here owned by the armourer Thomas (or John) Thavie in the 14th century[536][537]
• Thomas More Highwalk – after 16th-century author and statesman Thomas More
• Threadneedle Street and Threadneedle Walk – originally Three Needle Street, after the sign on a needle shop located here, later corrupted due to the obvious collocation of ‘thread’ and ‘needle’[538][539][540]
• Three Barrels Walk
• Three Cranes Walk
• Three Nun Court
• Three Quays Walk
• Throgmorton Avenue and Throgmorton Street – after 16th-century diplomat Nicholas Throckmorton; the Avenue was built in 1876[538][315][540]
• Tokenhouse Yard – after a 17th-century token house here (a house selling tokens during coin shortages)[541][542]
• Took’s Court – after local 17th-century builder/owner Thomas Tooke[541][543]
• Tower Hill Terrace – after the adjacent Tower Hill[544][545]
• Tower Royal – after a former Medieval tower and later royal lodging house that stood here; ‘Royal’ is in fact a corruption of La Réole, France, where local wine merchants hailed from[544][545]
• Trig Lane – after one of several people with the surname Trigge, recorded here in the Middle Ages[526]
• Trinity Square – after the adjacent Trinity House[546][547]
• Trump Street – unknown, but thought to be after either a local builder or property owner[546] or the local trumpet-making industry[547]
• Tudor Street – after the Tudor dynasty, with reference to Henry VIII’s nearby Bridewell Palace[546][548]
• Turnagain Lane – descriptive, as it is a dead-end; recorded in the 13th century as Wendageyneslane[549][550][548]

• Undershaft – named after a maypole (or ‘shaft’) that formerly stood nearby at the junction of Leadenhall Street and St Mary Axe[500][551]
• Union Court – named as when built it connected Wormwood Street to Old Broad Street[552]

• Victoria Avenue – named in 1901 in honour of Queen Victoria[553][33]
• Victoria Embankment – after Queen Victoria, reigning queen at the time of the building of the Thames Embankment[553][33]
• Vine Street – formerly Vine Yard, unknown but thought to be ether from a local inn or a vineyard[553][554]
• Vintners Court – after the adjacent Worshipful Company of Vintners building; the area has been associated with the wine trade as far back as the 10th century[555][554]
• Viscount Street – formerly Charles Street, both names after the Charles Egerton, Viscount Brackley, of which there were three in the 17th–18th centuries[556][557]

• Waithman Street – after Robert Waithman, Lord Mayor of London 1823–18233[558][559]
• Walbrook and Walbrook Wharf – after the Walbrook stream which formerly flowed here, possibly with reference to the Anglo-Saxon 'wealh' meaning 'foreigner' (i.e. the native Britons, or 'Welsh')[560][561][562]
• Wardrobe Place and Wardrobe Terrace – after the Royal Wardrobe which formerly stood here until destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666[563][564]
• Warwick Lane, Warwick Passage and Warwick Square – after the Neville family, earls of Warwick, who owned a house near here in the 1400s; formerly Old Dean’s Lane, after a house here resided in by the Dean of St Paul’s[565][566][567]
• Watergate – after a watergate which stood here on the Thames[565][567]
• Water Lane – after a former watergate that stood here by the Thames; formerly Spurrier Lane[568]
• Watling Court and Watling Street – corrupted from the old name of Athelingestrate (Saxon Prince Street), by association with the more famous Roman Watling Street[565][569][570]
• Well Court – after the numerous wells formerly located in this area[571]
• Whalebone Court
• Whitecross Place
• Whitecross Street – after a former white cross which stood near here in the 1200s[106][572]
• Whitefriars Street – after the Carmelite order (known as the White friars), who were granted land here by Edward I[106][572]
• White Hart Court – after a former inn of this name[106][573]
• White Hart Street
• White Horse Yard – after a former inn of this name[574][572]
• White Kennett Street – after White Kennett, rector of St Botolph's Aldgate in the early 1700s[574][572]
• White Lion Court – after a former inn of this name, destroyed by fire in 1765[574][572]
• White Lion Hill – this formerly led to White Lion Wharf, which is thought to have been named after a local inn[574]
• White Lyon Court
• Whittington Avenue – after Richard Whittington, former Lord Mayor of London[574][575]
• Widegate Street – thought to be after a gate that formerly stood on this street; formerly known as Whitegate Alley[576][577]
• Willoughby Highwalk – presumably after Sir Francis Willoughby, who is buried in the nearby St Giles-without-Cripplegate Church
• Wilson Street
• Wine Office Court – after an office here that granted licenses to sell wine in the 17th century[578][579]
• Wood Street – as wood and fire logs were sold here as part of the Cheapside market[580][395][581]
• Wormwood Street – after the wormwood formerly grown here for medicine[100][582]
• Wrestler’s Court – after a former Tudor-era house here of this name[582]

List of eponymous roads in London

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