Seabright Street, E2

Road in/near Bethnal Green, existing between 1788 and now

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August
29
2022
Seabright Street is a shadow of its former self.

Before the creation of the park of Weavers Fields, a number of Bethnal Green streets existed underneath its green expanse. This was one of them.

Many of the houses which formerly lined the road were old Weavers Houses, notable for their wide upstairs windows which let in more light for the weavers to work.

The road was named for William Seabright, or Sebright, (1541–1620) who owned land in Bethnal Green. He was a former Town Clerk of London.

In his 1620 will, he established the ’Sebright’s Endowed Schools’ charity.

The streets here were originally part of the Willett Estate. ’A History of the County of Middlesex’ states:

“In 1788 much of Willetts (George and Gravel fields) south of Bethnal Green Road was divided into lots, most of which were leased for 99 years to John May Evans, a Surrey builder, and William Timmins, a local brickmaker. They immediately built along the main road, including Shepherd’s Place or Row, and in the streets running south from it, named from the estate’s owners: White, Thomas, and Charles streets. Houses ‘in the background’ were probably in the narrow street parallel with Bethnal Green Road, called White’s or Thomas Passage or Granby’s Row. Abbey Street, at the west end of the development, existed as Benal Abbey Street in 1788. Part of the land was still a brickfield in 1803.”



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Main source: The lost streets of Weavers Fields, Part one – Growth (1700 – 1938) – Waterlow Estate History
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NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE
Bethnal Green Bethnal Green - a happy corner
Weaver’s Fields Weavers Fields is an open space in Bethnal Green.

NEARBY STREETS
Abingdon Street, E1 Abingdon Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Ainsley Street, E2 Ainsley Street is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Allenbury Street, E2 Allenbury Street no longer exists (Bethnal Green)
Andover Court, E2 Andover Court is a building on Mint Street (Bethnal Green)
Antenor House, E2 Antenor House is located on Old Bethnal Green Road (Cambridge Heath)
Apollo House, E2 Apollo House is a block on St Jude’s Road (Bethnal Green)
Argos House, E2 Argos House can be found on Old Bethnal Green Road (Bethnal Green)
Ashington House, E1 Ashington House is a block on Barnsley Street (Bethnal Green)
Bahram Court, E2 Bahram Court is a block on Mint Street (Bethnal Green)
Bancroft House, E1 Bancroft House is a block on Malcolm Road (Stepney Green)
Barnard House, E2 Barnard House is sited on Ellsworth Street (Bethnal Green)
Barnet Grove, E2 Barnet Grove is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Barnsley Street, E1 Barnsley Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Barwell House, E2 Barwell House is a block on Menotti Street (Bethnal Green)
Baxendale Street, E2 Baxendale Street is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Benjamin Truman Close, E1 Benjamin Truman Close is a location in London (Spitalfields)
Bethnal Green Road, E2 Bethnal Green Road was a Victorian invention (Bethnal Green)
Birkbeck Street, E2 Birkbeck Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Blitheale Court, E2 Blitheale Court is a block on Witan Street (Bethnal Green)
Blythe Street, E2 Blythe Street was formerly a much longer street (Bethnal Green)
Board School, Board School is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Bradbeer House, E2 Bradbeer House can be found on Bethnal Green Estate (Bethnal Green)
Braintree House, E1 Braintree House is named for the road it would have previously faced - Braintree Street (Stepney Green)
Braintree Street, E1 Braintree Street, like Hadleigh Street, was named after a town in Essex (Bethnal Green)
Buckfast Street, E2 Buckfast Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Buckhurst Street, E1 Buckhurst Street runs alongside St Bartholomew Gardens (Stepney Green)
Burns House, E2 Burns House is located on Bethnal Green Estate (Bethnal Green)
Cambridge Heath Road, E2 The route of Cambridge Heath Road, passing through Bethnal Green as a broad stretch of waste, was mentioned in the 1580s as the highway from Mile End to Hackney. (Bethnal Green)
Camden Street, Camden Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Canrobert Street, E2 Canrobert Street began as Charles Street in 1836 (Cambridge Heath)
Carlisle Street, Carlisle Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Caroline Adams House, E1 Caroline Adams House is a block on Pedley Street (Spitalfields)
Catherine Street, Catherine Street is an old East End street (Cambridge Heath)
Caudbridge Street , Caudbridge Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Cephas House, E1 Cephas House is a block on Wickford Street (Stepney Green)
Chapter House, E2 Chapter House is a block on Dunbridge Street (Bethnal Green)
Charles Darwin House, E2 Charles Darwin House is a block on Canrobert Street (Bethnal Green)
Charles Dickens House, E2 Charles Dickens House is a block on Mansford Street (Bethnal Green)
Chester Street, Chester Street is an old East End street (Mile End)
Church Row, E2 Church Lane was renamed to Church Row, E14 in 1875 (Bethnal Green)
City View House, E2 City View House is a block on Bethnal Green Road (Bethnal Green)
Clarkson Street, E2 Clarkson Street was formed after 1857 (Bethnal Green)
Cobden House, E2 Cobden House is a block on Nelson Gardens (Bethnal Green)
Codrington Court, E1 Codrington Court is sited on Scott Street (Whitechapel)
Corfield Street, E2 Corfield Street runs along the route of the former Camden Gardens (Bethnal Green)
Cornwall Avenue, E2 Cornwall Avenue is a no-through road running off of Braintree Street (Bethnal Green)
Cornwall Road, Cornwall Road is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Cotherstone Court, E2 Cotherstone Court is a block on Mint Street (Bethnal Green)
Coventry Road, E1 A street within the E1 postcode (Bethnal Green)
Coventry Street, E1 Suffolk Street was renamed to Coventry Street, E2 in 1881 (Bethnal Green)
Crown Works, E2 Crown Works is a small industrial zone off Temple Street (Cambridge Heath)
Cudworth Street, E1 Cudworth Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Cutters Court, E2 Cutters Court is sited on Three Colts Lane (Bethnal Green)
Cymon Street, E2 Cymon Street was near to Turin Street (Bethnal Green)
Dawson House, E2 Dawson House can be found on Bethnal Green Estate (Bethnal Green)
Derbyshire Street, E2 Derbyshire Street originated as part of the Willetts estate (Bethnal Green)
Devonshire Street, E1 Devonshire Street East (and West) became Devonshire Street in 1865 (Stepney Green)
Donegal House, E1 Donegal House was built in 1970 as part of the Collingwood Estate (Bethnal Green)
Doveton House, E1 Doveton House is a block on Doveton Street (Stepney Green)
Doveton Street, E1 Doveton Street was formerly Queen Street (until 1883), Queen’s Court and Peacock Place (earlier) (Stepney Green)
Dressage Court, E2 Dressage Court is a block on Three Colts Lane (Bethnal Green)
Ducie Street, Ducie Street is an old East End street (Whitechapel)
Dunbridge Street, E2 Dunbridge Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Durant Street, E2 Durant Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Ellsworth Street, E2 Ellsworth Street is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Embassy Court, E1 Embassy Court is a block on Brady Street (Bethnal Green)
Entick Street, E2 Entick Street was near to Malcolm Place - the course of the road still visible as a path parallel to Braintree Street (Bethnal Green)
Essex Street, E1 Essex Street, at first called Isaac Street, was largely redeveloped after the Second World War (Bethnal Green)
Evesham House, E2 Evesham House can be found on Old Ford Road (Mile End)
Finnis Street, Finnis Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Florida Street, E2 Florida Street leads east from Squirries Street (Bethnal Green)
Forber House, E2 Forber House is a block on Braintree Street (Bethnal Green)
Fox Street, Fox Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Fremantle House, E1 Fremantle House is located on Brady Street (Whitechapel)
Friesian House, E2 Friesian House can be found on Buckhurst Street (Bethnal Green)
Gainford House, E2 Gainford House is a block on Ellsworth Street (Bethnal Green)
Gales Gardens, E2 Gales Gardens is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Gawber Street, E2 Gawber Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Mile End)
George Gardens, George Gardens is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Glass Street, E2 Glass Street is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Gossett Street, Gossett Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Granby Row, Granby Row is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Greenheath Business Centre, E2 Greenheath Business Centre is a Bethnal Green commercial area (Bethnal Green)
Gretton House, E2 Gretton House is a block on Globe Road (Mile End)
Grove Street, E2 Lower Grove Street was called Grove Street after 1867 (Bethnal Green)
Gwilym Maries House, E2 Residential block (Bethnal Green)
Hadleigh Close, E1 Hadleigh Close is a right-angled road, part of the Rogers Estate (Stepney Green)
Hadleigh Walk, E1 Hadleigh Walk connects Hadleigh Street to the west (Stepney Green)
Hague Street, E2 Hague Street was built in 1826 (Bethnal Green)
Hannan Court, E1 Hannan Court can be found on Pedley Street (Spitalfields)
Hector House, E2 Hector House is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road (Bethnal Green)
Helen House, E2 Helen House is sited on Temple Street (Cambridge Heath)
Helen’s Place, E2 Helen’s Place is a road in the E2 postcode area (Mile End)
Hemming Street, E1 Hemming Street commemorates Edward Hemming, who represented Bethnal Green on the first select vestry of the parish of Stepney in 1589. (Whitechapel)
Herald Street, E2 Herald Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Hereford Street, Hereford Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Hereford Street, E2 Hereford Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Hollybush Gardens, E2 Hollybush Gardens is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Hollybush House, E2 Hollybush House is a block on Hollybush Gardens (Bethnal Green)
Hollybush Place, E2 Hollybush Place is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Hugues House, E2 Hugues House is a block on Sceptre Road (Bethnal Green)
Ion Court, E2 Ion Court is located on Columbia Road (Bethnal Green)
Ivimey Street, E2 Ivimey Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
James Middleton House, E2 James Middleton House is a block on Middleton Street (Bethnal Green)
Jersey Street, E2 Jersey Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
John Cartwright House, E2 John Cartwright House is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road (Bethnal Green)
Johnson House, E2 Johnson House is a block on Roberta Street (Bethnal Green)
Joseph Priestley House, E2 Joseph Priestley House is a block on Canrobert Street (Bethnal Green)
Keats House, E2 Keats House is a block on Roman Road (Bethnal Green)
Kelsey Street, E2 Kelsey Street was called Cross Street until 1869 (Bethnal Green)
King Street, E1 King Street was renamed Wickford Street in 1912 (Stepney Green)
Kinsham House, E2 Kinsham House is a block on Ramsey Street (Bethnal Green)
Kushiyara House, E1 Kushiyara House is a block on Pedley Street (Spitalfields)
Lang Street, E1 Lang Street is a post-war road (Stepney Green)
London Street, The Opening, E14 was renamed as London Street, E14 in 1888 (Bethnal Green)
Malcolm Place, E1 Malcolm Place runs along the railway and the south edge of Bethnal Green Gardens (Stepney Green)
Malcolm Road, E1 Malcolm Road was a new name for the southern section of Braintree Street after 1949 (Stepney Green)
Mansford Street, Mansford Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Mansford Street, E2 Mansford Street was known as Elizabeth Street until 1876 (Bethnal Green)
Mape Street, E2 While much altered, Mape Street began life in 1826 (Bethnal Green)
Maple Street, E2 Maple Street is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Mary James House, E2 Mary James House is a block on St Peter’s Square (Bethnal Green)
Mayfield House, E2 Mayfield House is a block on Cambridge Heath Road (Mile End)
McCalla House, E1 McCalla House is located on Pedley Street (Bethnal Green)
Mccoy House, E2 Mccoy House is a building on Three Colts Lane (Bethnal Green)
Menotti Street, E2 Menotti Street, a shadow of its former length, was called Manchester Street until 1864 (Bethnal Green)
Merceron House, E2 Merceron House is a block on Globe Road (Mile End)
Middleton Street, E2 Middleton Street was built after 1857 (Bethnal Green)
Milton House, E2 Milton House can be found on Bethnal Green Estate (Bethnal Green)
Minto Place, Minto Place is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Miss Chapel, Miss Chapel is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Montford House, E2 Montford House can be found on Victoria Park Square (Mile End)
Moore House, E2 Moore House is sited on Bethnal Green Estate (Bethnal Green)
Morris House, E2 Morris House is a block on Bethnal Green Estate (Bethnal Green)
Mulberry House, E2 Mulberry House is a block on Victoria Park Square (Mile End)
Museum Passage, E2 Museum Passage crosses the northern edge of Museum Gardens (Mile End)
Nant Street, E2 Nant Street is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Neath Terrace , Neath Terrace is an old East End street (Whitechapel)
Nelson Gardens, E2 Nelson Gardens runs off Old Bethnal Green Road (Bethnal Green)
Netteswell House, E2 Netteswell House is a building on Old Ford Road (Mile End)
Norah Street , Norah Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Northesk House, E1 Northesk House is a block on Tent Street (Bethnal Green)
Old Bethnal Green Road, E2 Old Bethnal Green Road had a series of rather racy names until the nineteenth century (Bethnal Green)
Oldford Road, Oldford Road is an old East End street (Mile End)
Orion House, E1 Orion House is an 11-storey block on the Collingwood Estate (Whitechapel)
Paradise Row, E2 Paradise Row is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Paris House, E2 Paris House is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road (Cambridge Heath)
Peel Grove, E2 Peel Grove is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Pelican House, E1 Pelican House is a block on Cambridge Heath Road (Stepney Green)
Pellew House, E1 Pellew House is a block on Somerford Street (Whitechapel)
Phoenix Court, E1 Phoenix Court is a block on Cudworth Street (Bethnal Green)
Pollard Place, E2 Pollard Place ran off Pollard Row (Bethnal Green)
Pollard Row, E2 Pollard Row runs north from Florida Street in Bethnal Green (Bethnal Green)
Pollard Street, E2 Pollard Street is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Pott Street, E2 Pott Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Poyser Street, E2 Poyser Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Pundersons Gardens, E2 Pundersons Gardens is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Ramsey Street, E2 A road with a long history, Ramsey Street has been realigned since the Second World War (Bethnal Green)
Rob Street, Rob Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Roberta Street, E2 Roberta Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Rochester Court, E2 Rochester Court is a block on Wilmot Street (Bethnal Green)
Roger Dowley Close, E2 Roger Dowley Close is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Rosemoon House, E2 Rosemoon House is a block on Voss Street (Bethnal Green)
Rushmead, E2 Rushmead is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Sale Street, E2 Sale Street once ran much further east (Bethnal Green)
Sanchia Court, E2 Sanchia Court is a block on Wellington Row (Bethnal Green)
Sceptre House, E1 Sceptre House is a block on Malcolm Road (Stepney Green)
Sceptre Street, E1 The southernmost section of Sceptre Road was called Sceptre Street (Stepney Green)
Scott Street, E1 Scott Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Whitechapel)
Seabright Street, E2 Seabright Street is a shadow of its former self (Bethnal Green)
Sheldon Place, Sheldon Place is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Shelley House, E2 Shelley House is a block on Bethnal Green Estate (Bethnal Green)
Sheppard House, E2 Sheppard House is a block on St Peter’s Close (Bethnal Green)
Sol Frankel House, E1 Sol Frankel House is a block on Pedley Street (Spitalfields)
Somerford Street, E1 Somerford Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Whitechapel)
Southampton Terrace, Southampton Terrace is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Soyeux Apartments, E1 Soyeux Apartments is a block on Scott Street (Whitechapel)
Squerries Street, Squerries Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Squirries Street, E2 Squirries Street is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
St Andrew Street, St Andrew Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
St Jude Street, St Jude Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
St Judes Road, E2 St Judes Road is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
St Matthews Row, E2 The parish of St Matthew, with its church here, was formed out of the parent parish of Stepney in 1743. (Bethnal Green)
St Peter’s Close, E2 St Peter’s Close lies near to St Peter’s in Bethnal Green (Bethnal Green)
St Peter’s Square, E2 St Peter’s Square lies behind St Peter’s, Bethnal Green (Bethnal Green)
Stapleton House, E2 Stapleton House is a block on Ellsworth Street (Bethnal Green)
Steeple Court, E1 Steeple Court is a block on Coventry Road (Bethnal Green)
Stockton House, E2 Residential block (Bethnal Green)
Sugar Loaf Walk, E2 Sugar Loaf Walk is a road in the E2 postcode area (Mile End)
Summerford Street, Summerford Street is an old East End street (Whitechapel)
Swinburne House, E2 Swinburne House is a block on Bethnal Green Estate (Bethnal Green)
Tap Street, Tap Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Tapp Street, E2 Tapp Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Tarrant House, E2 Tarrant House is a block on Roman Road (Bethnal Green)
Teal Street, Teal Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Teesdale Street, E2 Teesdale Street was Durham Street until 1875 (Cambridge Heath)
Tent Street, E1 Tent Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Thomas Burt House, E2 Thomas Burt House can be found on Canrobert Street (Bethnal Green)
Thornaby House, E2 Thornaby House is located on Canrobert Street (Bethnal Green)
Threaders Apartments, E2 Threaders Apartments is a block on Jersey Street (Bethnal Green)
Three Colt Lane, Three Colt Lane is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Three Colts Lane, E1 Three Colts Lane is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Thurlow Place, Thurlow Place is an old East End street (Mile End)
Tillett Way, E2 Tillett Way commemorates Ben Tillett, pioneer of dockers’ unions. (Bethnal Green)
Tredway Street, Tredway Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Tria Apartments, E2 Tria Apartments is a block on Durant Street (Bethnal Green)
Tyrell Street, E2 Tyrell Street appears on maps between the 1830s and 1900s (Bethnal Green)
Vallance Road, E2 The Bethnal Green end of Vallance Road was originally called White Street (Bethnal Green)
Verdigris Apartments, E2 Verdigris Apartments is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road (Bethnal Green)
Viaduct Place, E2 Viaduct Place connects Viaduct Street with Seabright Street (Bethnal Green)
Viaduct Street, E2 Viaduct Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Victoria Park Square, E2 Victoria Park Square is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Mile End)
Violet Street, Violet Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Voss Street, E2 Voss Street is the successor to an interlinked series of alleyways behind Bethnal Green Road (Bethnal Green)
Warner Place, E2 Warner Place is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Wear Place, E2 Wear Place is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Weaver Street, E1 Weaver Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Spitalfields)
Wellington Place, Wellington Place is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Westbrook House, E2 Westbrook House is a block on Globe Road (Mile End)
Westhope House, E2 Westhope House is a block on Derbyshire Street (Bethnal Green)
White Street, E2 White Street was the former name for part of Vallance Road (Bethnal Green)
Whitman House, E2 Whitman House is a building on Bethnal Green Estate (Bethnal Green)
Wickford House, E1 Wickford House is part of the 1948-built Cleveland estate (Stepney Green)
Wickford Street, E1 Wickford Street was a new name for King Street (Stepney Green)
William Channing House, E2 William Channing House is a block on Canrobert Street (Bethnal Green)
Wilmot Street, E2 Wilmot Street is one of the older Bethnal Green streets (Bethnal Green)
Wimbolt Street, E2 Wimbolt Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Winbolt Street, Winbolt Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Winchester Street, Winchester Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Winkley Street, E2 Winkley Street was Catherine Street until 1938 (Cambridge Heath)
Witan Street, E2 Witan Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Wolverley Street, Wolverley Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Wood Close, E2 Wood Close is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Yates House, E2 Yates House is a block on Roberta Street (Bethnal Green)
Zander Court, E2 Zander Court, alphabetically, is one of the last addresses in London (Bethnal Green)


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