The Story of London's Street Names

Описание: Warning: This video contains the kind of bad language you might expect from medieval Londoners from the beginning.

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P.S. Coneys at 9:17 were rabbits, not chickens.

Have you ever wondered how a street got its name? London is full of interesting and colourful street names, from Pissing Alley to Paradise Walk, but most London street names come under one of four categories: Descriptive, possessive, topical, or advertising. Within these are a number of subcategories which account for all the weird and wonderful names London has to offer. To get a better understanding of how London’s streets were named, and if you’re interested in worldbuilding, to get an idea of how you could approach naming your own fictional city’s streets, go ahead and watch the video.

0:00 Introduction
2:57 Descriptive Street Names
11:23 Possessive Street Names
16:13 Topical Street Names
17:53 Advertising Street Names
18:36 My Favourite Street Name Origin

London City Streets Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Bibliography
Primary Sources
John Stow, 'Survey of London'
Agas Map Online [https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/agas.htm]
Layers of London 1270-1300 map online [https://www.layersoflondon.org/map/co...]
Various maps of London from different eras from Historic Towns Atlas [http://www.historictownsatlas.org.uk/...]
1746 Map of London [https://www.locatinglondon.org/]
Charles Booth’s Poverty Map of Victorian London [https://booth.lse.ac.uk/map/12/-0.128...]
Secondary Sources
Gillian Bebbington, 'London Street Names'
Henry A, Harben, 'A Dictionary of London'
Keith Briggs, 'OE and ME cunte in place-names', Journal of the English Place-Name Society
Helen Kavanagh, 'The Topography of Illicit Sex in Later Medieval English Provincial Towns'
Fritz August Gottfried Endell, 'Old Tavern Signs'
Online Old English Translator [https://www.oldenglishtranslator.co.uk/]

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