Street names of Vauxhall
This is a list of the toponymy of street names in the London district of Vauxhall. The area has no formally defined boundaries – those utilised here are Black Prince Road to the north, Kennington Road to the north-east, Kennington Park Road/Clapham Road to the south-east, Miles Street/Fentiman Road to the south, and Wandsworth Road/Nine Elms Lane/river Thames to the west.
- Albert Embankment – built in the 1860s over former marshlands, it was named for Albert, Prince Consort, husband of Queen Victoria[1][2]
- Ashmole Street – after Elias Ashmole, noted 17th century antiquarian, who lived near here[3]
- Auckland Street
- Aveline Street
- Bedser Close – presumably for Alec Bedser, widely regarded as one of the best English cricketers of the 20th century, by association with the nearby Oval Cricket Ground
- Black Prince Road – after Edward the Black Prince, son of Edward III, who owned this land[4]
- Bondway – after the late 18th century developers of this street John and Sarah Bond[5]
- Bonnington Square
- Bowling Green Street – this land was formerly a bowling green leased to the owners of the nearby Horns Tavern[6]
- Brangton Road
- Cardigan Street
- Carroun Road – after the former Carroun, or Caron, House which stood here[7]
- Citadel Place
- Clapham Road – as it leads to the south-west London area of this name
- Claylands Place and Claylands Road – after the former brick clay fields located here prior to 1800[8]
- Clayton Street – after the Clayton family, who leased much of this land from the Duchy of Cornwall from the 1660s on[8]
- Coney Way
- Cottingham Road
- Courtenay Square and Courtenay Street
- Dolland Street
- Durham Street
- Ebbisham Drive
- Elias Place
- Farnham Royal
- Fentiman Road – after local mid-19th century developer John Fentiman[9]
- Glasshouse Walk – after the former Vauxhall Glassworks here, which thrived in the 1700s[10]
- Glyn Street
- Goding Street
- Graphite Square
- Hanover Gardens
- Hansom Mews
- Harleyford Road – after local leaseholders the Claytons, whose country house was Harleyford Manor, Buckinghamshire[11]
- Harold Place
- Jonathan Street – for Jonathan Tyers and his son, managers of the nearby Vauxhall Gardens for much of the 18th century[12]
- Kennington Gardens, Kennington Oval, Kennington Park Road, Kennington Road – after the Old English Chenintune (‘settlement of Chenna’a people’);[13][14] another explanation is that it means "place of the King", or "town of the King".[15]
- Lambeth Road and South Lambeth Place – refers to a harbour where lambs were either shipped from or to. It is formed from the Old English 'lamb' and 'hythe'.[16][17][18]
- Langley Lane
- Laud Street – after William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to 1645, by association with the nearby Lambeth Palace[19]
- Lawn Lane – after a former row of houses here called The Lawn, after their grass plots, demolished in 1889-90[20]
- Leopold Walk
- Lilac Place
- Loughborough Street
- Magee Street
- Meadow Mews and Meadow Road – after the former meadows here attached to Caron House[21]
- Miles Street
- Montford Place
- Newburn Street
- New Spring Gardens Walk – after the former Vauxhall Gardens here[22]
- Nine Elms Lane – after a row of nine elm trees which formerly stood along this lane[23]
- Orsett Street
- Oval Way – after the adjacent Oval Cricket Ground[13]
- Palfrey Place
- Parry Street – after Thomas Parry, 17th century statesman and owner of Copt Hall, a house near here[24]
- Pegasus Place
- Randall Road and Randall Row
- Riverside Walk – simply a descriptive name
- Rudolf Place
- St Oswald's Place
- Salamanca Place and Salamanca Street
- Sancroft Street – after William Sancroft, 79th Archbishop of Canterbury, by association with the nearby Lambeth Palace[25]
- Stables Way
- Stanley Close
- Tinworth Street – after George Tinworth, noted ceramic artist for the Royal Doulton ceramics company at Lambeth[26]
- Trigon Road
- Tyers Street and Tyers Terrace – for Jonathan Tyers and his son, managers of the nearby Vauxhall Gardens for much of the 18th century[27]
- Vauxhall Bridge (and Bridgefoot), Vauxhall Grove, Vauxhall Street and Vauxhall Walk – from the name of Falkes de Breauté, the head of King John's mercenaries, who owned a large house in the area, which was referred to as Faulke's Hall, later Foxhall, and eventually Vauxhall; the Bridge opened in 1816[28][29][30]
- Wandsworth Road – as it led to the south-west London area of this name[31]
- Wickham Street
- Windmill Row
- Worgan Street
- Wynyard Terrace
References
[edit]Citations
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 5.
- ^ Bebbington 1972, p. 19.
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 14.
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 33.
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 36.
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 38.
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 59.
- ^ a b Fairfield 1983, p. 73.
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 118.
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 134.
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 153.
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 174.
- ^ a b Fairfield 1983, p. 176.
- ^ Mills, Anthony David (2001). Dictionary of London Place Names. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-280106-6.
- ^ "North Lambeth — history | Lambeth Council". Lambeth.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
- ^ Mills, D. (2000). Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names. Oxford.
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 185.
- ^ Bebbington 1972, p. 194.
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 188.
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 189.
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 210.
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 226-7.
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 228.
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 241.
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 287.
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 317.
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 322.
- ^ Hibbert, Christopher (2008). London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan London Ltd. p. 967. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 327.
- ^ Bebbington 1972, p. 331.
- ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 333.
Sources
- Fairfield, Sheila (1983). The Streets Of London: A Dictionary Of The Names And Their Origins. Papermac.
- Bebbington, Gillian (1972). London Street Names. BT Batsford. ISBN 978-0-333-28649-4.