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
  • 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 ; another explanation is that it means "place of the King", or "town of the King".
  • 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'.
  • 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, 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
  • Wandsworth Road – as it led to the south-west London area of this name
  • Wickham Street
  • Windmill Row
  • Worgan Street
  • Wynyard Terrace