Baron Street is named after Joseph Barron, landlord of the White Lion inn during the late eighteenth century.
The land containing Baron Street formerly belonged to the White Lion inn and used for lodging cattle, being known as Barron’s Layers.
A large house and a substantial garden stood on the site of Nos 13-17 from 1787 into the second half of the twentieth century.
The other side of the road, leased to Thomas Collier, was more humbly built up in 1787-93, as was the north half of the street, which was known as Suffolk Street until 1908.
