Street names of the City of London

This is a list of the etymology of street names in the City of London. == A == Abchurch Lane and Abchurch Yard – after the adjacent St Mary Abchurch Adam's Court – thought to be for Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet, master of the Worshipful Company of Drapers and later Lord Mayor of London Addle Hill – from an Old English word for prince (athling) Addle Street – from an Old English word for filth/dung, presumably descriptive, though also may be the same etymology as Addle Hill above Alban Highwalk and St Albans Court – after the adjacent St Alban, Wood Street church, of which only the tower now remains Albion Place (off London Wall) Albion Way Aldermanbury and Aldermanbury Square – the site of a burgh (enclosed settlement) of a Saxon-era alderman Alderman's Walk – formerly Dashwood's Walk, for Francis Dashwood, who lived here in the 18th century; it was changed when he became an alderman Aldersgate Court and Aldersgate Street – the name Aldersgate is first recorded around 1000 in the form Ealdredesgate, i.e.

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