Street names of Vauxhall
This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London district of Vauxhall. The area has no formally defined boundaries – those utilised here are Black Prince Road to the north, Kennington Road to the north-east, Kennington Park Road/Clapham Road to the south-east, Miles Street/Fentiman Road to the south, and Wandsworth Road/Nine Elms Lane/river Thames to the west.
- Albert Embankment – built in the 1860s over former marshlands, it was named for Albert, Prince Consort, husband of Queen Victoria [1][2]
- Ashmole Street – after Elias Ashmole, noted 17th century antiquarian, who lived near here [3]
- Auckland Street -
- Aveline Street -
- Bedser Close - presumably for Alec Bedser, widely regarded as one of the best English cricketers of the 20th century, by association with the nearby Oval Cricket Ground
- Black Prince Road – after Edward the Black Prince, son of Edward III, who owned this land [4]
- Bondway – after the late 18th century developers of this street John and Sarah Bond [5]
- Bonnington Square –
- Bowling Green Street – this land was formerly a bowling green leased to the owners of the nearby Horns Tavern [6]
- Brangton Road –
- Cardigan Street -
- Carroun Road – after the former Carroun, or Caron, House which stood here [7]
- Citadel Place -
- Clapham Road – as it lead to the south-west London area of this name
- Claylands Place and Claylands Road – after the former brick clay fields located here prior to 1800 [8]
- Clayton Street – after the Clayton family, who leased much of this land from the Duchy of Cornwall from the 1660s on [8]
- Coney Way -
- Cottingham Road –
- Courtenay Square and Courtenay Street –
- Dolland Street -
- Durham Street –
- Ebbisham Drive –
- Elias Place –
- Farnham Royal -
- Fentiman Road – after local mid-19th century developer John Fentiman [9]
- Glasshouse Walk – after the former Vauxhall Glassworks here, which thrived in the 1700s [10]
- Glyn Street -
- Goding Street –
- Graphite Square -
- Hanover Gardens –
- Hansom Mews -
- Harleyford Road – after local leaseholders the Claytons, whose country house was Harleyford Manor, Buckinghamshire [11]
- Harold Place -
- Jonathan Street - for Jonathan Tyers and his son, managers of the nearby Vauxhall Gardens for much of the 18th century [12]
- Kennington Gardens, Kennington Oval, Kennington Park Road, Kennington Road – after the Old English Chenintune (‘settlement of Chenna’a people’); [13][14] another explanation is that it means "place of the King", or "town of the King".[15]
- Lambeth Road and South Lambeth Place - refers to a harbour where lambs were either shipped from or to. It is formed from the Old English 'lamb' and 'hythe'.[16][17][18]
- Langley Lane –
- Laud Street – after William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633-45, by association with the nearby Lambeth Palace [19]
- Lawn Lane – after a former row of houses here called The Lawn, after their grass plots, demolished in 1889-90[20]
- Leopold Walk –
- Lilac Place -
- Loughborough Street –
- Magee Street -
- Meadow Mews and Meadow Road – after the former meadows here attached to Caron House[21]
- Miles Street –
- Montford Place –
- Newburn Street -
- New Spring Gardens Walk – after the former Vauxhall Gardens here [22]
- Nine Elms Lane – after a row of nine elm tress which formerly stood along this lane [23]
- Orsett Street -
- Oval Way – after the adjacent Oval Cricket Ground [13]
- Palfrey Place –
- Parry Street – after Thomas Parry, 17th century statesman and owner of Copt Hall, a house near here [24]
- Pegasus Place –
- Randall Road and Randall Row –
- Riverside Walk – simply a descriptive name
- Rudolf Place -
- St Oswald’s Place -
- Salamanca Place and Salamanca Street –
- Sancroft Street – after William Sancroft, 79th Archbishop of Canterbury, by association with the nearby Lambeth Palace [25]
- Stables Way -
- Stanley Close –
- Tinworth Street – after George Tinworth, noted ceramic artist for the Royal Doulton ceramics company at Lambeth [26]
- Trigon Road –
- Tyers Street and Tyers Terrace – for Jonathan Tyers and his son, managers of the nearby Vauxhall Gardens for much of the 18th century [27]
- Vauxhall Bridge (and Bridgefoot), Vauxhall Grove, Vauxhall Street and Vauxhall Walk - from the name of Falkes de Breauté, the head of King John's mercenaries, who owned a large house in the area, which was referred to as Faulke's Hall, later Foxhall, and eventually Vauxhall; the Birdge opened in 1816[28][29][30]
- Wandsworth Road – as it led to the south-west London area of this name [31]
- Wickham Street -
- Windmill Row –
- Worgan Street -
- Wynyard Terrace -
References
Citations
- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p5.
- ^ Bebbington, 1972 & p19.
- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p14.
- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p33.
- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p36.
- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p38.
- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p59.
- ^ a b Fairfield, 1983 & p73.
- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p118.
- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p134.
- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p153.
- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p174.
- ^ a b Fairfield, 1983 & p176.
- ^ Mills, Anthony David (2001). Dictionary of London Place Names. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-280106-6.
- ^ "North Lambeth — history | Lambeth Council". Lambeth.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
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- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p185.
- ^ Bebbington, 1972 & p194.
- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p188.
- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p189.
- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p210.
- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p226-7.
- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p228.
- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p241.
- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p287.
- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p317.
- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p322.
- ^ Hibbert, Christopher (2008). London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan London Ltd. p. 967. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.
- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p327.
- ^ Bebbington, 1972 & p331.
- ^ Fairfield, 1983 & p333.
Sources
- Fairfield, Sheila (1983). The Streets Of London: A Dictionary Of The Names And Their Origins. Papermac.
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