Interesting Origins Behind London Place Names Posted By: Izzy Evans

Due to England"s diverse history, its place names do not share single point in time in which they were created and instead have often derived from a variety of different historical eras. Nowhere is this more apt than in London. The streets and boroughs of London have a wide ranging etymology stretching centuries back into the past. Today many of the place names are seemingly made up of meaningless words (to us in the 21st century at least) and the true meaning can be rather obscure. Some of the street and place names do not even actually mean what they now appear to, and had a very different meaning when they were originally thought up.

Many of the areas and places in London have obvious meanings. Waterloo is named after the famous Batt ...london, england, etymology, history, marylebone, mayfair, place names, westminster

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