Street names of Vauxhall explained

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
• Ashmole Street – after Elias Ashmole, noted 17th century antiquarian, who lived near here
• 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
• Bondway – after the late 18th century developers of this street John and Sarah Bond
• Bonnington Square
• Bowling Green Street – this land was formerly a bowling green leased to the owners of the nearby Horns Tavern
• Brangton Road
• Cardigan Street
• Carroun Road – after the former Carroun, or Caron, House which stood here
• 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
• Clayton Street – after the Clayton family, who leased much of this land from the Duchy of Cornwall from the 1660s on
• 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
• Glasshouse Walk – after the former Vauxhall Glassworks here, which thrived in the 1700s
• Glyn Street
• Goding Street
• Graphite Square
• Hanover Gardens
• Hansom Mews
• Harleyford Road – after local leaseholders the Claytons, whose country house was Harleyford Manor, Buckinghamshire
• Harold Place
• Jonathan Street – for Jonathan Tyers and his son, managers of the nearby Vauxhall Gardens for much of the 18th century
• Kennington Gardens, Kennington Oval, Kennington Park Road, Kennington Road – after the Old English Chenintune (‘settlement of Chenna’a people’);^[1] another explanation is that it means "place of the King", or "town of the King".^[2]
• 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'.^[3]
• Langley Lane
• Laud Street – after William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to 1645, by association with the nearby Lambeth Palace
• Lawn Lane – after a former row of houses here called The Lawn, after their grass plots, demolished in 1889-90
• Leopold Walk
• Lilac Place
• Loughborough Street
• Magee Street
• Meadow Mews and Meadow Road – after the former meadows here attached to Caron House
• Miles Street
• Montford Place
• Newburn Street
• New Spring Gardens Walk – after the former Vauxhall Gardens here
• Nine Elms Lane – after a row of nine elm trees which formerly stood along this lane
• Orsett Street
• Oval Way – after the adjacent Oval Cricket Ground
• Palfrey Place
• Parry Street – after Thomas Parry, 17th century statesman and owner of Copt Hall, a house near here
• 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
• Stables Way
• Stanley Close
• Tinworth Street – after George Tinworth, noted ceramic artist for the Royal Doulton ceramics company at Lambeth
• 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
• 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^[4]
• Wandsworth Road – as it led to the south-west London area of this name
• Wickham Street
• Windmill Row
• Worgan Street
• Wynyard Terrace

References

Citations

Sources

• Book: Fairfield, Sheila. The Streets Of London: A Dictionary Of The Names And Their Origins. Papermac. 1983.
• Book: Bebbington, Gillian. London Street Names. registration. BT Batsford. 1972. 978-0-333-28649-4.

Notes and References

1. Book: Mills, Anthony David. 2001. Dictionary of London Place Names. Oxford University Press. 0-19-280106-6.
2. Web site: North Lambeth — history | Lambeth Council . Lambeth.gov.uk . 29 March 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120316220346/http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/Services/AboutLambeth/LambethByLocalArea/NorthLambethHistory.htm . 16 March 2012 . dmy .
3. Book: Mills, D. . Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names . 2000 . Oxford.
4. Book: Hibbert, Christopher. London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan London Ltd. 2008. 967. 978-1-4050-4924-5.