Talk:List of eponymous roads in London

Source Information

A useful place for finding backgrounds to street names is British History Online

Names

A few names of Streets for Inclusion:

• In Westminster & Camden:
  • Bedford Square, Bedford Row, Bedford Avenue, Bedford Street, Bedford Place - All named after the Dukes of Bedford on whose land they were built (ref) Much of the area is still owned by the Bedford Estate. - done
  • Russell Square - the family name of the Dukes of Bedford who owned the land (ref) - done
  • Grosvenor Square (ref}, Grosvenor Hill, Grosvenor Street - The Grosvenor Family - Dukes of Westminster - done
  • Cavendish Square and New Cavendish Street - Cavendish Family - (ref) - done
  • Oxford Street and Mortimer Street - Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (ref} - done
  • Portland Place and Great Portland Street - Duke of Portland (ref)
  • Chandos Street - James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (ref). There is also a Chandos Place near Tralagar Square
  • Lamb's Conduit Street - William Lamb - a gentleman of the Chapel Royal under Henry VIII who constructed a water course in the street (ref)
• In Merton (all otherwise unremarkable residential roads):
  • Garth Road - Richard Garth (Garth and his family before him were Lords of the Manor of Morden since the Tudor Period, ref) - done

• Multimap finds a couple of Garth Roads in Merton. Both his?

Sorry, actually neither. If you searched for "Garth Road, Merton" neither of the two results given by Multimap are in Merton. The correct one can be found at "Garth Road, Lower Morden"

• • Nelson Road - Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson who once owned the estate the on which the Road and those following were subsequently built - done
  • Hardy Road - Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet Flag Captain of the Victory - done
  • Hamilton Road - Emma Hamilton - Nelson's mistress - done

References

Of course, we could do with references for some of these :( --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:33, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Misnomer?

Surely the people rather than the roads are eponymous? They gave their names to the streets, rather than taking them from existing places? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Informed Owl (talk • contribs) 21:20, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

It works both ways, according to wiktionary. The OED agrees with you. I have a horrible feeling that eponymic might be the word I was after :( ... I guess I'm trying to avoid the (to me clumsy) List of roads in London named after people. Perhaps I shouldn't be. Oh dear. --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:46, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

What is an Eponym? defines the term per the OED, but uses it per this article. I'm taking this common use as "eponymous = related to an eponym". The road named after A is, in this way, related to A. I'm going to leave the article title as is for now. --Tagishsimon (talk) 18:38, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I have only just read this. I'd usually prefer the OED to any other definition (well, I would, wouldn't I? It has supported my view on this occasion!). I think you are right though that "List of roads in London named after people" is a little on the cumbersome side!Informed Owl (talk) 22:21, 7 September 2008 (UTC)Informed Owl

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Names

♦If Golborne Road is named after Dean Golbourne, why is there no 'u' in the street name? ♦Wouldn't King Edward's Road (Barking & Dagenham) have previously been called Creekmouth Road (rather than "Creeksmouth" Road) as that is the name of the locality to which it lead. London buses on route 23C always showed CREEKMOUTH as the destination.Haynesta (talk)Haynesta (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 12:18, 13 March 2019 (UTC) ♦The comment against the entry for Tavistock Square states: "Family name of the Dukes of Bedford who owned the land" but Marquess of Tavistock, after whom the square was named, is a subsidiary title of the Dukes of Bedford. Should the comment be amended?Haynesta (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 12:33, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Creeksmouth is an alternative name for Creekmouth. My mother (1930-2019) used it and I have seen it in history books. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cardinal 1962 (talk • contribs) 14:53, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

London Ambiguity

Heading should refer to Greater London to avoid ambiguity, especially as the area is much bigger than the LONDON post town. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cardinal 1962 (talk • contribs) 14:55, 5 April 2020 (UTC)