Portland Street, E1

Road in/near Stepney Green, existed between the 1840s and 1939

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Portland Street was replaced by Westport Street in 1939.

It first appeared on maps of the 1840s and ran further north than Westport Street, almost as far as Walter Terrace.


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NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE
Limehouse Limehouse is a National Rail station, also connected to the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) network.
St Dunstan’s and All Saints Church St Dunstan’s, Stepney is an Anglican church which stands on a site that has been used for Christian worship for over a thousand years.

NEARBY STREETS
Albert Gardens, E1 Albert Gardens, an almost intact late-Georgian residential square (Shadwell)
All Saints Court, E1 All Saints Court (together with St Mary’s Clergy House) is a symmetrical group with gabled wings and cut-away corner balconies (Shadwell)
Anglia House, E14 Anglia House is a block on Salmon Lane (Limehouse)
Ann Street, E1 Ann Street is an old East End street (Shadwell)
Antill Terrace, E1 Antill Terrace was built off of Senrab Street (then Barbour Gardens) around 1865 (Stepney Green)
Apsley House, E1 Apsley House is a block on Aylward Street (Stepney Green)
Apsley Street, E1 Apsley Street was off Redman’s Road (Stepney Green)
Arbour House, E1 Arbour House was designed by B.J. Belsher, the Stepney Borough Surveyor (Stepney Green)
Arbour Square, E1 Arbour Square is a late Georgian square in Stepney (Stepney Green)
Arta House, E1 Arta House is a block on Devonport Street (Shadwell)
Aston Street, E14 Aston Street is a long north-south running road north of Salmon Lane (Stepney Green)
Avis Square, E1 Avis Square was created in 1961 (Stepney Green)
Aylward Street, E1 Aylward Street has a complicated history (Stepney Green)
Baltonsborough Court, E1 Baltonsborough Court is located on Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
Barnardo Gardens, E1W Barnardo Gardens was created as local streets were swept away post-war (Shadwell)
Barnardo Street, E1 Dr Thomas John Barnardo founded a boy’s orphanage in Stepney Causeway (Shadwell)
Barnes Street, E14 Barnes Street was built on land belonging to W.H. Pemberton Barnes (Stepney Green)
Barton Mews, E14 A street within the E14 postcode (Limehouse)
Bekesbourne Street, E14 Bekesbourne Street is one of the streets of London in the E14 postal area (Limehouse)
Belgrave Street, E1 Belgrave Street connects Stepney High Street with Commercial Road (Stepney Green)
Ben Jonson Road, E1 The satiric dramatist Ben Jonson (or Johnson) died in 1637. (Stepney Green)
Bere Street, Bere Street is an old East End street (Shadwell)
Berglen Court, E14 Berglen Court is a block on Branch Road (Limehouse)
Bermuda Street, E1 Bermuda Street was an old East End street (Stepney Green)
Bermuda Way, E1 Bermuda Way runs between two residential blocks (Stepney Green)
Billing House, E1 Billing House is a block on Commercial Road (Shadwell)
Bladen House, E1 Bladen House is a block on Dunelm Street (Stepney Green)
Blount Street, E14 Blount Street leads north from Salmon Lane (Stepney Green)
Boisseau House, E1 Boisseau House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Bootmakers Court, E1 Bootmakers Court is a block on Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
Boulcott Street, E1W Boulcott Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Ratcliff)
Bower Street, E1 Bower Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Shadwell)
Branch Road, E14 Branch Road is one of the streets of London in the E14 postal area (Limehouse)
Brayford Square, E1 Brayford Square is a small shopping area from 1978 (Stepney Green)
Brenton Street, E14 Brenton Street is a short road running under a railway bridge (Stepney Green)
Brodlove Lane, E1W Brodlove Lane is a road in the E1W postcode area (Shadwell)
Bromley Street, E1 Bromley Street was built between 1829 and 1843 by Daniel Goody (Stepney Green)
Brook Street, E1 Brook Street was an old name for this section of Cable Street (Ratcliff)
Brunton Place, E14 Brunton Place is one of the streets of London in the E14 postal area (Limehouse)
Bull’s Buildings, E1W Bull’s Buildings was a close off White Horse Street (Ratcliff)
Burley House, E1 Burley House is part of the Mountmorres Estate (Stepney Green)
Butcher Row, E1W Butcher Row is a road in the E1W postcode area (Limehouse)
Caledonia House, E14 Caledonia House can be found on Salmon Lane (Limehouse)
Cambria House, E14 Cambria House is a block on Salmon Lane (Limehouse)
Camdenhurst Street, E14 Camdenhurst Street connects Repton Street with Salmon Lane (Stepney Green)
Caroline Street, E1 Caroline Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Ratcliff)
Cayley Street, E14 Cayley Street, after demolition, became part of White Horse Open Space (Stepney Green)
Chalkwell House, E1 Chalkwell House can be found on Commercial Road (Shadwell)
Chaseley Street, E14 Chaseley Street runs from Barnes Street to Yorkshire Road (Limehouse)
Chudleigh Street, E1 Chudleigh Street was called Albany Street until 1938 (Stepney Green)
Clearbrook Way, E1 Clearbrook Way is a modern cul-de-sac, running west off West Arbour Street (Stepney Green)
Clichy House, E1 Clichy House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Clovelly Way, E1 A street within the E1 postcode (Stepney Green)
Coltman Street, E14 Coltman Street runs north from Maroon Street (Stepney Green)
Commercial Road East, Commercial Road East is an old East End street (Shadwell)
Conder Street, E14 Conder Street, now a tiny cul-de-sac once ran north all the way to Maroon Street (Stepney Green)
Copley Street, E1 Copley Street now runs south from Stepney Way (Stepney Green)
Corrigham House, E1 Corrigham House is a block on Pitsea Street (Ratcliff)
Cosmo Apartments, E1 Cosmo Apartments is sited on Westport Street (Shadwell)
Cranford Street, E1W Cranford Street is a road in the E1W postcode area (Ratcliff)
Cromarty House, E1 Cromarty House is a block on Aston Street (Stepney Green)
Dagobert House, E1 Dagobert House is a block on Smithy Street (Stepney)
Dakin Place, E1 Dakin Place is one of a confusion of small roads leading off White Horse Road (Stepney Green)
Dame Colet House, E1 Dame Colet House is a block on Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
Darnley House, E14 Darnley House is sited on Camdenhurst Street (Stepney Green)
Devonport Street, E1 Devonport Street connects Commercial Road and Cable Street (Shadwell)
Diggon Street, E1 Diggon Street is now a small remnant cul-de-sac off Stepney Way (Stepney Green)
Dowson House, E1 Dowson House is located on Commercial Road (Shadwell)
Drewton Street, E1 Drewton Street was previously James Street (Shadwell)
Dunelm Street, E1 Fair Street was renamed Dunelm Street in 1939 (Stepney Green)
Dunstan Place, E1W Dunstan Place first appeared on the 1830 map, replacing an area called Globe Yard (Ratcliff)
Durham Row, E1 Durham Row is a path leading west from White Horse Road (Stepney Green)
East Arbour Street, E1 East Arbour Street leads north from Arbour Square (Stepney Green)
Edith Ramsey House, E1 Edith Ramsey House is a block on Duckett Street (Stepney Green)
Edward Mann Close East, E1 A street within the E1 postcode (Ratcliff)
Elf Row, E1W A street within the E1W postcode (Shadwell)
Elizabeth Blount Court, E14 Elizabeth Blount Court can be found on Repton Street (Stepney Green)
Elsa Street, E14 Elsa Street is now in two sections - a street and a continuation as a walkway (Stepney Green)
Exmouth Court, E1 Exmouth Court appears on the 1900 map (Stepney Green)
Exmouth Street, E1 Exmouth Street was largely destroyed during the Second World War and replaced by residential blocks on the Clicky Estate (Stepney)
Fair Street, E1 Fair Street ran from Oxford Street to Charles Street (Stepney Green)
Flamborough Street, E14 Flamborough Street is a Yorkshire place name, chosen by association with neighbouring York Square (Limehouse)
Flamborough Walk, E14 A street within the E14 postcode (Limehouse)
Galsworthy Avenue, E14 Galsworthy Avenue connects Halley Street and Repton Street (Stepney Green)
Garden Street, E1 Garden Street lies to the rear of what was called ’King John’s Palace’ (Stepney Green)
George Scott House, E1 George Scott House is a block on West Arbour Street (Stepney Green)
Glasshouse Fields, E1W Glasshouse Fields was Glasshouse Street until 1862 (Shadwell)
Glasshouse Street, E1W Glasshouse Street was renamed Glasshouse Fields in 1862 (Shadwell)
Gold Street, E1 Prospect Place was renamed as Gold Street in 1882 (Stepney Green)
Gray Court, E14 Gray Court is a block on Ben Johnson Road (Stepney Green)
Grosvenor Street, E1 Grosvenor Street was renamed Mountmorres Road in 1939 (Stepney Green)
Halley Street, E14 Halley Street was previously called Alley Street (Stepney Green)
Hardinge Lane, E1W Hardinge Lane is a road in the E1 postcode area (Shadwell)
Hardinge Street, E1W Hardinge Street existed in the 1750s or before as St George’s Path (Shadwell)
Harriott House, E1 Harriott House is a block on Jamaica Street (Stepney Green)
Havering Street, E1 Havering Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Shadwell)
Head Street, E1 Head Street replaced Heath Street in 1938 (Shadwell)
Hearnshaw Street, E14 Hearnshaw Street leads south from Maroon Street (Stepney Green)
Heath Street, E1 Heath Street was the location of a rope walk by the beginning of the nineteenth century (Stepney Green)
Horseferry Road, E14 Horseferry Road is a road in the E14 postcode area (Limehouse)
Ikøn House, E1W Ikøn House is sited on Cable Street (Shadwell)
Jamaica Street, E1 Jamaica Street is the successor street to King Street (Stepney)
James Place, James Place is an old East End street (Shadwell)
John Bowles Court, E1W John Bowles Court is a block on Schoolhouse Lane (Shadwell)
John Nash Mews, E14 John Nash Mews is located at the Limehouse Entrance to Regent’s Canal Dock (Limehouse)
John Scurr House, E14 John Scurr House is located on Ratcliffe Lane (Limehouse)
Johnny Andrews House, E1 Johnny Andrews House is a block on Boulcott Street (Ratcliff)
Johnson Street, E1 Johnson Street first appears as John Street on 1820s mapping, but not on 1810s maps (Shadwell)
Justice Apartments, E1 Justice Apartments is a block on Aylward Street (Stepney Green)
King John Street, E1 King John Street leads off Stepney Green (Stepney Green)
King Street, E1 King Street was one of two King Streets in Stepney, the other being nearer to Bethnal Green (Stepney)
Lady Micos Almshouses, E1 Lady Micos Almshouses offers lodgings exclusively for women in Stepney (Stepney Green)
Lake Street, E1 Lake Street was at first called Thomas Street (Shadwell)
Latham House, E1 Latham House is a block on Chudleigh Street (Stepney Green)
Lavender House, E1 Lavender House is a block on Commercial Road (Ratcliff)
Le Moal House, E1 Le Moal House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Len Bishop Court, E1W Len Bishop Court is a block on Schoolhouse Lane (Ratcliff)
Lighterman Mews, E1 Lighterman Mews is 1990s development (Stepney Green)
Lorne House, E1 Lorne House can be found on Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
Love Lane, Love Lane is an old East End street (Shadwell)
Malthouse Apartments, E1 Malthouse Apartments is a block on Caroline Street (Shadwell)
Maroon Street, E14 Maroon Street is a major east-way connecting road of Stepney Green (Stepney Green)
Matlock Street, E14 Matlock Street is a surviving street of Stepney Green, its route intact after the war (Stepney Green)
Medland House, E14 Medland House is a building on Branch Road (Limehouse)
Mercer Court, E14 Mercer Court is a block on Candle Street (Stepney Green)
Mountmorres Road, E1 Grosvenor Street was called Mountmorres Road after 1939 (Stepney Green)
New Belvedere House, E1 New Belvedere House is a block on White Horse Road (Stepney Green)
Odette Duval House, E1 Odette Duval House is a 9-storey block containing 52 dwellings (Stepney)
Ogilvie House, E1 Ogilvie House is a block on Stepney Causeway (Ratcliff)
Old Church Road, E1 Old Church Road originally extended north from Commercial Road to Stepney Way, opposite St Dunstan’s Church. (Shadwell)
Oley Place, E1 Oley Place - originally Wellington Street - was part of an estate belonging to Clare College, Cambridge (Stepney Green)
Oman Way, E14 Oman Way is a postwar-built walkway leading to White Horse Open Space (Stepney Green)
Parnham Street, E14 Parnham Street is a road in the E14 postcode area (Bow Common)
Pattison House, E1 Pattison House is a block on Aylward Street (Stepney Green)
Pattison Street, E1 Pattison Street ran southeast from a junction with Jamaica Street (Stepney Green)
Pechora Way, E14 Pechora Way leads west from Maroon Street (Stepney Green)
Perth Street, E1 Perth Street was created as St Vincent Street during the 1830s (Stepney Green)
Pevensey House, E1 Pevensey House is a block on Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
Pinchin Johnsons Yard, E1W Pinchin Johnsons Yard is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Shadwell)
Pinnacle Way, E14 A street within the E14 postcode (Limehouse)
Pitsea Street, E1 Pitsea Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Ratcliff)
Pole Street, E1 Pole Street became part of Stepney Green Park (Stepney Green)
Poonah Street, E1 Poonah Street first appears as a name in 1891 (Shadwell)
Portland Street, E1 Portland Street was replaced by Westport Street in 1939 (Stepney Green)
Powlesland Court, E1 Powlesland Court is a block on White Horse Road (Stepney Green)
Raby Street, E14 Raby Street commemorates the name of a builder active in East London from the 1850s. (Stepney Green)
Railton House, E1 Railton House is a block on Arbour Square (Shadwell)
Ratcliffe Cross Street, E1W Ratcliffe Cross Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Ratcliff)
Ratcliffe House, E14 Ratcliffe House is a block on Barnes Street (Stepney Green)
Ratcliffe Lane, E14 Ratcliffe Lane runs south of Limehouse station (Limehouse)
Repton Street, E14 Repton Street lies in the part of Stepney Green in the E14 postcode, north of Salmon Lane (Stepney Green)
Rochelle Court, E1 Rochelle Court are flats with shops underneath from 1938 (Shadwell)
Ronald Street, E1 Ronald Street appeared in a series of parallel streets first emerging in the 1830s (Shadwell)
Rosea House, E1 Rosea House is sited on Boulcott Street (Ratcliff)
Roslin House, E1W Roslin House can be found on Brodlove Lane (Shadwell)
Rotherhithe Tunnel, E14 Rotherhithe Tunnel is a road in the E14 postcode area (Limehouse)
Salmon Lane, E14 Salmon Lane skirts the northern edge of Limehouse (Stepney Green)
Saloon House, E14 Saloon House is sited on Brunton Place (Limehouse)
School House Lane, School House Lane is an old East End street (Ratcliff)
Schoolhouse Lane, E1W Schoolhouse Lane connects Cable Street and The Highway (Ratcliff)
Senrab Street, E1 Senrab Street is the name ’Barnes’ reversed (Stepney Green)
Shipwright House, E1 Shipwright House is a block on Boulcott Street (Ratcliff)
Silver Street, E1 Silver Street ran parallel with Gold Street, though it was narrower (Stepney Green)
Sims House, E1 Sims House is a block on Havering Street (Shadwell)
Smith Street, E1 Because of the number of Smith Streets in London, the road became Smithy Street during the 1930s (Stepney)
Smithy Street, E1 Smithy Street was called Smith Street until 1938 (Stepney)
Solent House, E1 Solent House is a block on Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
St Dunstans Mews, E1 St Dunstans Mews faces St Dunstan’s Churchyard (Stepney Green)
St Thomas House, E1 St Thomas House is a block on East Arbour Street (Stepney Green)
Stepney Causeway, E1 Stepney Causeway is associated with Thomas John Barnardo, who opened his first shelter for homeless children at number 18. (Shadwell)
Stepney Green, E1 Stepney Green was originally a 15th century row of houses near to St Dunstan’s church (Stepney Green)
Stepney High Street, E1 Stepney High Street was previously the main street of Stepney (Stepney Green)
Stifford House, E1 Stifford House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney Green)
Summercourt Road, E1 Summercourt Road is parallel with Commercial Road, one block north (Stepney Green)
Temple Court, E1 Temple Court can be found on Rectory Square (Stepney Green)
The Ship Apartments, E1 The Ship Apartments is a block on Hardinge Street (Shadwell)
Thirza House, E1 Thirza House is a block on Devonport Street (Shadwell)
Thirza Street, E1W Thirza Street was situated off Hardinge Street, immediately south of the railway (Shadwell)
Thomas Street, Thomas Street is an old East End street (Shadwell)
Tillotson Street, E1 Tillotson Street was built on land belonging to Clare College, Cambridge (Stepney Green)
Tottan Terrace, E1 Tottan Terrace is a pathway along the southern edge of the Belgrave Open Space (Stepney Green)
Troon House, E1 Troon House is a block of flats situated west of White Horse Road (Stepney Green)
Troon Street, E14 Troon Street is a very short street and is the westward extension of Salmon Lane (Stepney Green)
Vista Court, E1 Vista Court is a block on Bermuda Way (Stepney Green)
Wakeling Street, E14 A street within the E14 postcode (Limehouse)
Walter Street, E1 Walter Street was swept away after the Second World War (Stepney Green)
Walter Terrace, E1 Walter Terrace is a renaming of the southern end of Walter Street in 1939 (Stepney Green)
Warren Place, E1W A street within the E1 postcode (Ratcliff)
Warton Court, E1W Warton Court is sited on Cable Street (Shadwell)
Warton Place, E1W Warton Place, at the turn of the twentieth century, led to a glass factory (Shadwell)
Wellesley Street, E1 Wellesley Street was severely truncated post-war (Stepney Green)
West Arbour Street, E1 West Arbour Street runs north from Commercial Road to Aylward Street (Stepney Green)
Westport Street, E1 Westport Street runs north from Commercial Road (Stepney Green)
Wetton House, E1 Wetton House overlooks the southern edge of Stepney Green Park (Stepney Green)
White Horse Road, E1 White Horse Road is an ancient lane, running to the east of St Dunstan’s church (Stepney Green)
White Horse Street, E14 Until the early 20th century, White Horse Street stretched uninterrupted from Stepney Churchyard to Butcher Row, leading down to the riverside (Limehouse)
Wickham Close, E1 Wickham Close is a road in the E1 postcode area (Stepney)
William Fry House, E1 William Fry House is a block on West Arbour Street (Stepney Green)
Yorkshire Place, E14 Yorkshire Place was initially called Railway Place (Limehouse)
Yorkshire Road, E14 Yorkshire Road was named by association with nearby York Square (Limehouse)
Zenith Building, E14 Zenith Building is located on Commercial Road (Limehouse)


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