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

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Citations

  1. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 5.
  2. ^ Bebbington 1972, p. 19.
  3. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 14.
  4. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 33.
  5. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 36.
  6. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 38.
  7. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 59.
  8. ^ a b Fairfield 1983, p. 73.
  9. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 118.
  10. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 134.
  11. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 153.
  12. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 174.
  13. ^ a b Fairfield 1983, p. 176.
  14. ^ Mills, Anthony David (2001). Dictionary of London Place Names. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-280106-6.
  15. ^ "North Lambeth — history | Lambeth Council". Lambeth.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
  16. ^ Mills, D. (2000). Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names. Oxford.
  17. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 185.
  18. ^ Bebbington 1972, p. 194.
  19. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 188.
  20. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 189.
  21. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 210.
  22. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 226-7.
  23. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 228.
  24. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 241.
  25. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 287.
  26. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 317.
  27. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 322.
  28. ^ Hibbert, Christopher (2008). London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan London Ltd. p. 967. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.
  29. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 327.
  30. ^ Bebbington 1972, p. 331.
  31. ^ Fairfield 1983, p. 333.

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