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Gillingham Mews, Gillingham Row and
Gillingham Street – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is
405:
Westmoreland Place and
Westmoreland Terrace – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is
36:
to the south, the
Victoria railway line, Buckingham Palace Road/Buckingham Gate/Grosvenor Gardens to the west and Lower Grosvenor Place/Bressenden Place to the north. Victoria is a vaguely defined area, but is generally used to refer to streets immediately around the station of that name.
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Denbigh Place and
Denbigh Street – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is
419:
Winchester Street – this land was formerly part of the
Grosvenor family estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is
232:
Gloucester Street – this land was formerly part of the
Grosvenor family estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is
163:
Cumberland Street – this land was formerly part of the
Grosvenor family estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is
130:
Chichester Street – this land was formerly part of the
Grosvenor family estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is
150:
Clarendon Street – this land was formerly part of the
Grosvenor family Estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is
109:
Cambridge Street – this land was formerly part of the
Grosvenor family estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is
51:
Aylesford Street – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family Estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is
335:
Sussex Street – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is
41:
Alderney Street – this street was changed to ‘Alderley Street’ in 1879, in honour of the Stanley of Alderley family; however they were not pleased with this move and so the name was changed; prior to this it was Stanley Street, after George Stanley, local
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Warwick Place North, Warwick Row, Warwick Square, Warwick Square Mews, Warwick Way, West Warwick Place – after Henry Wise, local 18th century landowner and gardener to William III, who owned land in
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Neathouse Place – after either an early settlement here of small cottages dubbed ‘neat houses’, or the Neate, a medieval manor located in Pimlico, stemming from a word meaning 'islet'
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Moreton Place, Moreton Street and Moreton Terrace – after Henry Wise, local 18th century landowner and gardener to William III, who owned land near
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Grosvenor Gardens, Grosvenor Gardens Mews, Grosvenor Road and Lower Grosvenor Place – as this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate
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246:
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Tachbrook Street and Upper Tachbrook Street – after Henry Wise, local 18th century landowner and gardener to William III, who owned land near
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249:, whose family owned much of the surrounding land (though Hugh was a common name in the family and another individual may have been intended)
339:
Sutherland Row and Sutherland Street – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate, several members of whom married into the
79:
Bressenden Place – this street was built in 1962, replacing a small line of shops called Bressenden Row; the origin of the name is unknown
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Ranelagh Road – as it led to the former New Ranelagh Tea Gardens on the Thames, named in imitation of the popular
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Churton Place and Churton Street – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family Estate; they owned land in
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Guildhouse Street – after the Guild House, which formerly stood near here on Eccleston Square from 1922 to 1946
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Rampayne Street – after Charles Rampanyne, who in 1705 left funds in his will for the children of the nearby
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and Eccleston Square Mews – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate; they owned land in
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Hudson's Place – after the Hudson's furniture depository formerly located here, founded by William Hudson
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Eaton Lane – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate; the family owned land in Eaton,
28:. The area has no formally defined boundaries – those utilised here are the generally accepted ones of:
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Charlwood Place and Charlwood Street – after Henry Wise, local 18th century landowner and gardener to
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Beeston Place – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate; the family owned land in
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St George's Drive, St George's Square and St George's Square Mews – after the manor of St George's,
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Claverton Street – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate; they owned land in
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that once dominated the area; the bridge here formerly stood over a small stream
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Wilton Road – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family Estate;
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Terminus Place – descriptive, as it lies outside Victoria station terminus
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Johnson's Place – after John Johnson, Victorian-era local paviour/owner
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103:, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway from 1937 to 1948.
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Bessborough Gardens, Bessborough Place and Bessborough Street – after
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West Mews – a shortening of its pre-1936 name Warwick Place Mews West
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Bulleid Way - close to Victoria Station, this street was named after
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The Streets Of London: A Dictionary Of The Names And Their Origins
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Elizabeth Bridge – after Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, wife of
332:, late 20th century/early 21st century Conservative politician
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Ebury Bridge – as this area was formerly part of the manor of
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which originally stretched to the Thames, and was named for
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Longmoore Street – after the marshes formerly located here
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Bridge Place – after the Eccleston Bridge that stood here
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This is a list of the etymology of street names in the
193:, thought to have originated as a Latinisation of the
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265:, whose family owned much of the surrounding land
356:Telford Terrace – after the pioneering engineer
295:, 19th century American philanthropist in London
200:‘eyai’, which means ‘island’ in reference to a
218:Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster
160:Colonnade Walk – presumably simply descriptive
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411:Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
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263:Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster
247:Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster
134:Churchill Gardens Road – this post-war
138:was named in honour of Prime Minister
74:John Ponsonby, 5th Earl of Bessborough
413:married Eleanor Egerton, daughter of
281:Paxton Terrace – thought to be after
7:
314:Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh
1392:Streets in the City of Westminster
415:Thomas Egerton, 1st Earl of Wilton
245:Hugh Mews and Hugh Street – after
14:
1221:Street name etymologies of London
372:manufacturers in the 19th century
710:J. E. B. Gover, 1922,
1412:England geography-related lists
1:
1167:Bebbington, Gillian (1972).
712:The Place Names of Middlesex
328:Simon Milton Square – after
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1158:Fairfield, Sheila (1983).
714:, London, Longmans, p. 22.
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45:Allington Street – after
312:, which were named for
291:Peabody Avenue – after
92:, originally built for
47:Allington, Lincolnshire
32:to the north-east, the
1407:Street names of London
88:– by association with
86:Buckingham Palace Road
261:Lupus Street – after
385:Victoria Square and
376:Vauxhall Bridge Road
120:, who owned land in
96:, Duke of Buckingham
30:Vauxhall Bridge Road
1171:London Street Names
378:– as it approaches
212:Eccleston, Cheshire
156:Claverton, Cheshire
348:Bishop's Tachbrook
341:Duke of Sutherland
300:Grey Coat Hospital
287:The Crystal Palace
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146:Churton, Cheshire
140:Winston Churchill
90:Buckingham Palace
63:Beeston, Cheshire
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1117:Fairfield 1983
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