Buck Street leads from Kentish Town Road to Camden High Street.
The Bucks came from Bideford, Devon are were a family of ship owners and merchants, with tobacco plantations in Virginia.
In 1824, Lewis William Buck inherited Hartland Abbey, also in north Devon.
Lewis went into partnership with Sir Henry Hawley with whom he began development of Hawley’s property in Camden. This became known as the Hawley-Buck estate.
In 1835, they leased the land for house building, which was completed in the following decade.
