Bath Terrace is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Borough Road, SE1 Borough Road is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area. Cole Street, SE1 Cole Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area. Deacon Way, SE17 Deacon Way is one of the streets of London in the SE17 postal area. Elba Place, SE17 Elba Place is one of the streets of London in the SE17 postal area. Garden Row, SE1 Garden Row is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area. Gaunt Street, SE1 Gaunt Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area. Hankey Place, SE1 Hankey Place is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area. Harper Road, SE1 Harper Road is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area. London Road, SE1 London Road is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area. Meadow Row, SE1 Meadow Row is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area. Scovell Road, SE1 Scovell Road is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area. Silex Street, SE1 Silex Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area. Swan Street, SE1 Swan Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area. Tabard Street, SE1 Tabard Street was the old road to Kent and called Kent Street until 1877. Tarn Street, SE1 Tarn Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Elephant and Castle is one of five London tube stations named after a pub.One thing Elephant and Castle is
not named after is 'La Infanta de Castilla', seemingly referring to a series of Spanish princesses such as Eleanor of Castile and María, the daughter of Philip III of Spain. However, Eleanor of Castile was not an infanta - the term only appeared in English about 1600. María has a strong British connection because she was once controversially engaged to Charles I, but she had no connection with Castile.
Infanta de Castilla therefore seems to be a conflation of two Iberian royals separated by 300 years.
Regardless, the pub of that name gave its name to the station, and in turn the station to the nearby area - originally called
Newington.
Elephant & Castle tube station is on the Bank branch of the Northern Line between Kennington and Borough, and is the southern terminus of the Bakerloo Line.
The station was built in two stages. The Northern Line station opened on 18 December 1890 as part of the first deep-level tube, the City & South London Railway (C&SLR). The Baker Street & Waterloo Railway (BS&WR) station opened on 5 August 1906, five months after the rest of the line. Although belonging to separate companies, the platforms were connected below ground from 10 August 1906.
The first baby to be born on the underground was born at the station in 1924. Press reports claimed that she had been named Thelma Ursula Beatrice Eleanor (so that her initials would have read T.U.B.E.) but this story later proved false, and she was named Marie Cordery. Elephant and Castle seems to specialise in names which prove false!
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