Talk:List of eponymous roads in London

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Contents 1 Source Information 2 Names 3 References 4 Misnomer?

[edit] Source Information

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

[edit] 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

[edit] References

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

[edit] 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)