Diggon Street, E1

Road in/near Stepney Green

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Road · * · E1 ·
August
13
2017
Diggon Street is now a small remnant cul-de-sac off Stepney Way.

After Blitz damage, most of it became part of Stepney Green Park.


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NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE
Limehouse Limehouse is a National Rail station, also connected to the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) network.
St Dunstan’s and All Saints Church St Dunstan’s, Stepney is an Anglican church which stands on a site that has been used for Christian worship for over a thousand years.

NEARBY STREETS
Alfred Street, E1 Alfred Street was the precursor street to Shandy Street (Stepney Green)
Allport Mews, E1 Allport Mews lies off Stepney Green itself (Stepney Green)
Anne Goodman House, E1 Anne Goodman House is sited on Jubilee Street (Stepney Green)
Antcliff Street, E1 Antcliff Street was probably built by William Antcliff of Newham Street (Stepney)
Antcliffe Street, E1 Antcliffe Street formerly ran off Bromehead Road (Stepney)
Antill Terrace, E1 Antill Terrace was built off of Senrab Street (then Barbour Gardens) around 1865 (Stepney Green)
Apsley House, E1 Apsley House is a block on Aylward Street (Stepney Green)
Apsley Street, E1 Apsley Street was off Redman’s Road (Stepney Green)
Arbour House, E1 Arbour House was designed by B.J. Belsher, the Stepney Borough Surveyor (Stepney Green)
Arbour Square, E1 Arbour Square is a late Georgian square in Stepney (Stepney Green)
Armsby House, E1 Armsby House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Assembly Passage, E1 Assembly Passage is a long, cobbled walkway that leads from Mile End Road to Redmans Road (Stepney Green)
Aston Street, E14 Aston Street is a long north-south running road north of Salmon Lane (Stepney Green)
Avis Square, E1 Avis Square was created in 1961 (Stepney Green)
Aylward Street, E1 Aylward Street has a complicated history (Stepney Green)
Bale Road, E1 Bale Road runs along the southern edge of Shandy Park (Stepney Green)
Baltonsborough Court, E1 Baltonsborough Court is located on Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
Barnes Street, E14 Barnes Street was built on land belonging to W.H. Pemberton Barnes (Stepney Green)
Beatrice House, E1 Beatrice House was built after 1996 (Stepney Green)
Beaufort Gardens, E1 Beaufort Gardens runs down from Shandy Street to Trafalgar Gardens (Stepney Green)
Beaumont Square, E1 Beaumont Square is a garden square that was laid out in 1840 as the centerpiece of the Beaumont Estate, a housing development by Captain J T Barber Beaumont. (Stepney Green)
Beckett House, E1 Beckett House is part of a three block complex facing Jubilee Street (Stepney)
Belgrave Street, E1 Belgrave Street connects Stepney High Street with Commercial Road (Stepney Green)
Ben Jonson Road, E1 The satiric dramatist Ben Jonson (or Johnson) died in 1637. (Stepney Green)
Bere Street, Bere Street is an old East End street (Shadwell)
Bermuda Street, E1 Bermuda Street was an old East End street (Stepney Green)
Bermuda Way, E1 Bermuda Way runs between two residential blocks (Stepney Green)
Bladen House, E1 Bladen House is a block on Dunelm Street (Stepney Green)
Boisseau House, E1 Boisseau House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Brayford Square, E1 Brayford Square is a small shopping area from 1978 (Stepney Green)
Bromley Street, E1 Bromley Street was built between 1829 and 1843 by Daniel Goody (Stepney Green)
Burley House, E1 Burley House is part of the Mountmorres Estate (Stepney Green)
Carmelo Mews, E1 Carmelo Mews is a mews behind the houses on the east side of Stepney Green (Stepney Green)
Carpenter House, E1 Carpenter House faces Trafalgar Gardens (Stepney Green)
Cayley Street, E14 Cayley Street, after demolition, became part of White Horse Open Space (Stepney Green)
Chalkwell House, E1 Chalkwell House can be found on Commercial Road (Shadwell)
Chaseley Street, E14 Chaseley Street runs from Barnes Street to Yorkshire Road (Limehouse)
Chesworth Court, E1 Chesworth Court is sited on Hannibal Road (Stepney Green)
Chudleigh Street, E1 Chudleigh Street was called Albany Street until 1938 (Stepney Green)
Clark Street, E1 Clark Street is a long and old street of Stepney (Stepney Green)
Clearbrook Way, E1 Clearbrook Way is a modern cul-de-sac, running west off West Arbour Street (Stepney Green)
Clichy House, E1 Clichy House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Clovelly Way, E1 A street within the E1 postcode (Stepney Green)
Colverson House, E1 Colverson House is a block on the Sidney Estate (Stepney)
Commercial Road East, Commercial Road East is an old East End street (Shadwell)
Copley Street, E1 Copley Street now runs south from Stepney Way (Stepney Green)
Cornwood Drive, E1 Cornwood Drive runs off Jubilee Street (Stepney)
Cosmo Apartments, E1 Cosmo Apartments is sited on Westport Street (Shadwell)
Cottage Court, E1 Cottage Court was situated off Hayfield Passage, first visible on the 1860s mapping (Stepney Green)
Cressy Court, E1 Cressy Court was called Little Union Place until 1937 (Stepney Green)
Cressy House, E1 Cressy House was built at the corner of Cressy Place and Hannibal Road in 1894 (Stepney Green)
Cressy Place, E1 Cressy Place is one of the older streets in Stepney Green (Stepney Green)
Cromarty House, E1 Cromarty House is a block on Aston Street (Stepney Green)
Dagobert House, E1 Dagobert House is a block on Smithy Street (Stepney)
Dakin Place, E1 Dakin Place is one of a confusion of small roads leading off White Horse Road (Stepney Green)
Dame Colet House, E1 Dame Colet House is a block on Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
Dempsey Street, E1 Dempsey Street was created before 1830 along with surrounding streets (Stepney Green)
Diggon Street, E1 Diggon Street is now a small remnant cul-de-sac off Stepney Way (Stepney Green)
Dongola Road, E1 Dongola Road connects Duckett Street and Harford Street (Stepney Green)
Duckett Street, E1 Duckett Street runs from Ernest Street to Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
Dundalk House, E1 Dundalk House faces Clark Street (Stepney Green)
Dunelm Street, E1 Fair Street was renamed Dunelm Street in 1939 (Stepney Green)
Dunstan Houses, E1 Dunstan Houses on Stepney Green were built in 1899 by the East End Dwellings Company to provide housing for the poor (Stepney Green)
Durham Row, E1 Durham Row is a path leading west from White Horse Road (Stepney Green)
East Arbour Street, E1 East Arbour Street leads north from Arbour Square (Stepney Green)
Eastbury Terrace, E1 Eastbury Terrace has a complicated history as a street name (Stepney Green)
Edith Ramsey House, E1 Edith Ramsey House is a block on Duckett Street (Stepney Green)
Elizabeth Bates Court, E1 Elizabeth Bates Court is a block on Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Elsa Street, E14 Elsa Street is now in two sections - a street and a continuation as a walkway (Stepney Green)
Exmouth Court, E1 Exmouth Court appears on the 1900 map (Stepney Green)
Exmouth Place, E1 Exmouth Place is on the 1860 map (Stepney Green)
Exmouth Street, E1 Exmouth Street was largely destroyed during the Second World War and replaced by residential blocks on the Clicky Estate (Stepney)
Fair Street, E1 Fair Street ran from Oxford Street to Charles Street (Stepney Green)
Farrier Court, E1 Farrier Court is a block on the corner of White Horse Lane and Killick Way (Stepney Green)
Flamborough Street, E14 Flamborough Street is a Yorkshire place name, chosen by association with neighbouring York Square (Limehouse)
Flamborough Walk, E14 A street within the E14 postcode (Limehouse)
Fulneck Place, E1 Fulneck Place is a short cul-de-sac which runs under a modern arch (Stepney Green)
Galway House, E1 Galway House is a block on White Horse Lane (Stepney Green)
Garden Street, E1 Garden Street lies to the rear of what was called ’King John’s Palace’ (Stepney Green)
George Scott House, E1 George Scott House is a block on West Arbour Street (Stepney Green)
Gold Street, E1 Prospect Place was renamed as Gold Street in 1882 (Stepney Green)
Grosvenor Street, E1 Grosvenor Street was renamed Mountmorres Road in 1939 (Stepney Green)
Hannibal Road, E1 Hannibal Road leads south from the junction of Mile End Road and Stepney Green (Stepney Green)
Harford Street, E1 Harford Street is a long north-south street of Stepney Green (Stepney Green)
Harriott House, E1 Harriott House is a block on Jamaica Street (Stepney Green)
Hawkins Street, E1 Hawkins Street is an old East End street, appearing on maps during the 1840s (Stepney)
Hayfield House, E1 Hayfield House is a block on Hayfield Passage (Stepney Green)
Hayfield Passage, E1 Hayfield Passage leads down to Stepney Green from Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Head Street, E1 Head Street replaced Heath Street in 1938 (Shadwell)
Heath Street, E1 Heath Street was the location of a rope walk by the beginning of the nineteenth century (Stepney Green)
Jacqueline House, E1 Jacqueline House is a building on White Horse Lane (Stepney Green)
Jamaica Street, E1 Jamaica Street is the successor street to King Street (Stepney)
Jarman House, E1 Jarman House, Beckett House and Wingrand House were built as a single block on the Sidney Estate (Stepney)
Jean Pardies House, E1 Jean Pardies House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Jubilee Street, E1 Jubilee Street was built off the then-new Commercial Road and named to commemorate the Jubilee of George III in 1810. (Stepney Green)
Justice Apartments, E1 Justice Apartments is a block on Aylward Street (Stepney Green)
Killick Way, E1 Killick Way is a modern road south of the Ocean Estate (Stepney Green)
Kiln House, E1 Kiln House is a block on Killick Way (Stepney Green)
King John Street, E1 King John Street leads off Stepney Green (Stepney Green)
King Street, E1 King Street was one of two King Streets in Stepney, the other being nearer to Bethnal Green (Stepney)
Lace Court, E1 Lace Court is sited on Masters Street (Stepney Green)
Lady Micos Almshouses, E1 Lady Micos Almshouses offers lodgings exclusively for women in Stepney (Stepney Green)
Latham House, E1 Latham House is a block on Chudleigh Street (Stepney Green)
Le Moal House, E1 Le Moal House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Levitas House, E1 Levitas House are flats situated on Jubilee Street, dating from 2020 (Stepney Green)
Lighterman Mews, E1 Lighterman Mews is 1990s development (Stepney Green)
Lindley House, E1 Lindley House is a block on Lindley Street (Stepney)
Lindley Street, E1 Lindley Street first appeared on a Stepney map during the 1840s (Stepney)
Longford House, E1 Longford House is a one of a number of Irish county themed blocks dating from the late 1950s (Stepney)
Lorne House, E1 Lorne House can be found on Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
Louise De Marillac House, E1 Louise De Marillac House is a block on Jubilee Street (Stepney)
Lower John Street, E1 Lower John Street (also simply ’John Street’) was short-lived street name of Stepney (Stepney Green)
Lydia Street, E1 Lydia Street was located along White Horse Lane just north of the modern Shandy Street (Stepney Green)
Malthouse Apartments, E1 Malthouse Apartments is a block on Caroline Street (Shadwell)
Maria Terrace, E1 Maria Terrace lies off Beaumont Square (Stepney Green)
Mariana Court, E1 Mariana Court is a block on Assembly Passage (Stepney)
Masters Street, E1 Masters Street is the western extension of Bohn Road (Stepney Green)
Matcham Court, E1 Matcham Court is a block on Hannibal Road (Stepney Green)
Matlock Street, E14 Matlock Street is a surviving street of Stepney Green, its route intact after the war (Stepney Green)
Milrood House, E1 Milrood House is a block on Stepney Green (Stepney Green)
Monsey Place, E1 Monsey Place serves the Rhodewell Apartments (Stepney Green)
Morecambe Close, E1 Morecambe Close is a modern road leading off Beaumont Square (Stepney Green)
Mountmorres Road, E1 Grosvenor Street was called Mountmorres Road after 1939 (Stepney Green)
Musbury Street, E1 Musbury Street is a street of post-war blocks of flats (Stepney Green)
New Belvedere House, E1 New Belvedere House is a block on White Horse Road (Stepney Green)
Newbold Street, E1 First appearing on the 1870 map, Newbold Street disappeared during the post-war rebuilding of the area (Stepney Green)
O’Leary Square, E1 O’Leary Square is a development of the Sidney Estate (Stepney)
Odette Duval House, E1 Odette Duval House is a 9-storey block containing 52 dwellings (Stepney)
Old Church Road, E1 Old Church Road originally extended north from Commercial Road to Stepney Way, opposite St Dunstan’s Church. (Shadwell)
Oley Place, E1 Oley Place - originally Wellington Street - was part of an estate belonging to Clare College, Cambridge (Stepney Green)
Oman Way, E14 Oman Way is a postwar-built walkway leading to White Horse Open Space (Stepney Green)
Pacific Court, E1 Pacific Court is a building on Assembly Passage (Stepney)
Panama House, E1 Panama House is a block on Beaumont Square (Stepney Green)
Pattison House, E1 Pattison House is a block on Aylward Street (Stepney Green)
Pattison Street, E1 Pattison Street ran southeast from a junction with Jamaica Street (Stepney Green)
Pechora Way, E14 Pechora Way leads west from Maroon Street (Stepney Green)
Pegasus House, E1 Pegasus House is one of the post-war blocks surrounding Beaumont Square (Stepney Green)
Perth Street, E1 Perth Street was created as St Vincent Street during the 1830s (Stepney Green)
Pevensey House, E1 Pevensey House is a block on Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
Pole Street, E1 Pole Street became part of Stepney Green Park (Stepney Green)
Portland Street, E1 Portland Street was replaced by Westport Street in 1939 (Stepney Green)
Potter House, E1 Potter House is a block on Beaufort Gardens (Stepney Green)
Powlesland Court, E1 Powlesland Court is a block on White Horse Road (Stepney Green)
Press House, E1 Press House can be found on Trafalgar Gardens (Stepney Green)
Princes Street, E1 Princes Street was a former name for the northern section of Dempsey Street (Stepney)
Railton House, E1 Railton House is a block on Arbour Square (Shadwell)
Ratcliffe House, E14 Ratcliffe House is a block on Barnes Street (Stepney Green)
Rectory Square, E1 Rectory Square, dating from the 1860s, was named from the rectory of St Dunstan’s parish church nearby (Stepney Green)
Recurrence Apartments, E1 Recurrence Apartments is located on Commercial Road (Stepney)
Redmans Road, E1 Redmans Road is a long east-west road of Stepney (Stepney Green)
Rochelle Court, E1 Rochelle Court are flats with shops underneath from 1938 (Shadwell)
Roland Mews, E1 Roland Mews emerges through an archway under Roland House (Stepney Green)
Ronald Street, E1 Ronald Street appeared in a series of parallel streets first emerging in the 1830s (Shadwell)
Rosery Court, E1 Rosery Court was built on the site of St Dunstan’s Rectory (Stepney Green)
Sambrook House, E1 Sambrook House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Senrab Street, E1 Senrab Street is the name ’Barnes’ reversed (Stepney Green)
Shandy Street, E1 Shandy Street connects Beaumont Square with Harford Street (Stepney Green)
Silver Street, E1 Silver Street ran parallel with Gold Street, though it was narrower (Stepney Green)
Sims House, E1 Sims House is a block on Havering Street (Shadwell)
Smith Street, E1 Because of the number of Smith Streets in London, the road became Smithy Street during the 1930s (Stepney)
Smithy Street, E1 Smithy Street was called Smith Street until 1938 (Stepney)
Solent House, E1 Solent House is a block on Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
St Dunstans Mews, E1 St Dunstans Mews faces St Dunstan’s Churchyard (Stepney Green)
St Faith’s House, E1 St Faith’s House is a block on Shandy Street (Stepney Green)
St Thomas House, E1 St Thomas House is a block on East Arbour Street (Stepney Green)
Stepney City Apartments, E1 Stepney City Apartments is a modern pair of blocks on the corner of Jubilee Street and Clark Street (Stepney Green)
Stepney Green Court, E1 Stepney Green Court was built in 1895 (Stepney Green)
Stepney Green, E1 Stepney Green was originally a 15th century row of houses near to St Dunstan’s church (Stepney Green)
Stepney High Street, E1 Stepney High Street was previously the main street of Stepney (Stepney Green)
Stepney Way, E1 Stepney Way is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Stepney)
Stifford House, E1 Stifford House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney Green)
Summercourt Road, E1 Summercourt Road is parallel with Commercial Road, one block north (Stepney Green)
Sydney House, E1 Sydney House is a block on the east side of Beaumont Square (Stepney Green)
Temple Court, E1 Temple Court can be found on Rectory Square (Stepney Green)
Textile House, E1 Textile House is a block on Duckett Street (Stepney Green)
Tillotson Street, E1 Tillotson Street was built on land belonging to Clare College, Cambridge (Stepney Green)
Tottan Terrace, E1 Tottan Terrace is a pathway along the southern edge of the Belgrave Open Space (Stepney Green)
Trafalgar Gardens, E1 Trafalgar Gardens was previously Trafalgar Square until 1938 (Stepney Green)
Tree House, E1 Tree House is located on Jubilee Street (Stepney)
Trinity Mews, E1 Trinity Mews is a modern development (Stepney)
Troon House, E1 Troon House is a block of flats situated west of White Horse Road (Stepney Green)
Troon Street, E14 Troon Street is a very short street and is the westward extension of Salmon Lane (Stepney Green)
Vine Cottages, E1 Vine Cottages is the name of a 1960s block facing Jubilee Gardens (Stepney Green)
Vista Court, E1 Vista Court is a block on Bermuda Way (Stepney Green)
Wakeling Street, E14 A street within the E14 postcode (Limehouse)
Waley Street, E1 Commemorates Henry le Waleys or Waleis, mayor of London in 1273, 1281-3 and 1298. (Stepney Green)
Walter Street, E1 Walter Street was swept away after the Second World War (Stepney Green)
Walter Terrace, E1 Walter Terrace is a renaming of the southern end of Walter Street in 1939 (Stepney Green)
Wellesley Street, E1 Wellesley Street was severely truncated post-war (Stepney Green)
West Arbour Street, E1 West Arbour Street runs north from Commercial Road to Aylward Street (Stepney Green)
Westport Street, E1 Westport Street runs north from Commercial Road (Stepney Green)
Wetton House, E1 Wetton House overlooks the southern edge of Stepney Green Park (Stepney Green)
White Horse Lane, E1 White Horse Lane originally meandered through the countryside, beginning its journey in Whitechapel and eventually converging with the similarly-named White Horse Street (Stepney Green)
White Horse Road, E1 White Horse Road is an ancient lane, running to the east of St Dunstan’s church (Stepney Green)
Wickham Close, E1 Wickham Close is a road in the E1 postcode area (Stepney)
William Fry House, E1 William Fry House is a block on West Arbour Street (Stepney Green)
Wingrad House, E1 Wingrad House is a block on the northern section of Jubilee Street (Stepney)


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