Milton Street was formerly known as Grub Street.
Category: EC2
Capel Court, EC2R
On the east side of the Bank of England turn into Bartholomew Lane. Capel Court is off to the east.
Throgmorton Street, EC2N
The name of Throgmorton Street is a corruption of the name of Nicholas Throckmorton, Elizabeth I’s ambassador to France and Scotland.
Addle Street, EC2V
Addle Street, there from ancient times, was a victim of the bulldozer after the Second World War.
Curtain Road, EC2A
Curtain Road was the first location of a place called a ’theatre’ – in the sense of a location where acting is performed.
Alderman’s Walk, EC2M
Alderman’s Walk was formerly Dashwood’s Walk, for Francis Dashwood, who lived here in the 18th century.
Cheapside, EC2V
Cheapside is a street in the City of London, the historic and modern financial centre of London.
Tenter Ground
Tenter Ground harks back to the seventeenth century when this patch of land was surrounded by weavers’ houses and workshops and used to wash and stretch their fabrics on ’tenters’ to dry.