Old Bethnal Green Road, E2

Road in/near Bethnal Green, existing until now

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Old Bethnal Green Road had a series of rather racy names until the nineteenth century.

In 1549, Brick Lane was described as leading northwards from Spitalfields to meet ’the way from Bishop’s Hall to Halliwell Street’.

The western part of that way, which probably existed in 1223, was called Cock Lane by 1538 and the rest called Rogue Lane by 1642 and Whores Lane in 1717. This became Old Bethnal Green Road after a more direct route of it south, Bethnal Green Road, was made by an Act of 1756 on the line of a bridleway.

Lanes that became the eastern end of Old Bethnal Green Road and of Three Colts Lane, and which both led from Cambridge Road, existed in 1388 as New Lane and Water Lane respectively.

Control of Old Bethnal Green Road lay with the Bethnal Green parish, which removed its tollgate in 1827.

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Main source: A History of the County of Middlesex | British History Online
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NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE
Bethnal Green Bethnal Green - a happy corner
Cambridge Heath Cambridge Heath is a district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, north of Bethnal Green.
Weaver’s Fields Weavers Fields is an open space in Bethnal Green.

NEARBY STREETS
Achilles House, E2 Achilles House is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road (Bethnal Green)
Admiral Court, E2 Admiral Court can be found on Horatio Street (Bethnal Green)
Ainsley Street, E2 Ainsley Street is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Ajax House, E2 Ajax House is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road (Bethnal Green)
Alliston House, E2 Alliston House is a block on Bethnal Green Road (Bethnal Green)
Antenor House, E2 Antenor House is located on Old Bethnal Green Road (Cambridge Heath)
Apollo House, E2 Apollo House is a block on St Jude’s Road (Bethnal Green)
Argos House, E2 Argos House can be found on Old Bethnal Green Road (Bethnal Green)
Bapley Place, Bapley Place is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Barnard House, E2 Barnard House is sited on Ellsworth Street (Bethnal Green)
Barnet Grove, E2 Barnet Grove is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Barossa Place, E2 Barossa Place was also known by the name Barossa Terrace (Cambridge Heath)
Bath Grove, Bath Grove is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Baxendale Street, E2 Baxendale Street is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Beechwood House, E2 Beechwood House is a block on Teale Street (Cambridge Heath)
Belgrave Court, E2 Belgrave Court is a block on Temple Street (Cambridge Heath)
Bethnal Green Road, E2 Bethnal Green Road was a Victorian invention (Bethnal Green)
Birkbeck Street, E2 Birkbeck Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Blitheale Court, E2 Blitheale Court is a block on Witan Street (Bethnal Green)
Blythe Street, E2 Blythe Street was formerly a much longer street (Bethnal Green)
Board School, Board School is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Buckfast Street, E2 Buckfast Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Cambridge Court, E2 Cambridge Court can be found on Cambridge Heath Road (Cambridge Heath)
Cambridge Crescent, E2 Cambridge Crescent received its name by being originally part of the Cambridge Heath Estate (Cambridge Heath)
Cambridge Heath Road, E2 The route of Cambridge Heath Road, passing through Bethnal Green as a broad stretch of waste, was mentioned in the 1580s as the highway from Mile End to Hackney. (Bethnal Green)
Camden Street, Camden Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Canrobert Street, E2 Canrobert Street began as Charles Street in 1836 (Cambridge Heath)
Catherine Street, Catherine Street is an old East End street (Cambridge Heath)
Caudbridge Street , Caudbridge Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Centre Street, E2 Centre Street arrived in the 1820s (Cambridge Heath)
Charles Darwin House, E2 Charles Darwin House is a block on Canrobert Street (Bethnal Green)
Charles Dickens House, E2 Charles Dickens House is a block on Mansford Street (Bethnal Green)
Charles Hayward Building, E2 Charles Hayward Building is a building on Goldsmiths Row (Bethnal Green)
Charlotte King Court, E2 Charlotte King Court can be found on Goldsmiths Row (Cambridge Heath)
Cheverell House, E2 Cheverell House is a block on Pritchard’s Road (Cambridge Heath)
Cicely Williams Court, E2 Cicely Williams Court is a block on Gibbs Lane (Cambridge Heath)
City View House, E2 City View House is a block on Bethnal Green Road (Bethnal Green)
Clare Street, E2 Clare Street was built in the second decade of the nineteenth century (Cambridge Heath)
Claredale Street, E2 Claredale Street was known until the 1930s as Claremont Street but right at the beginning was Lausanne Street (Cambridge Heath)
Claremont Court, E2 Claremont Court is a block on Mansford Street (Cambridge Heath)
Clarkson Street, E2 Clarkson Street was formed after 1857 (Bethnal Green)
Coate Street, E2 Coate Street originated as Seabright Place in 1826 (Cambridge Heath)
Cobden House, E2 Cobden House is a block on Nelson Gardens (Bethnal Green)
Constance Green Court, E2 Constance Green Court is a block on Goldsmiths Row (Bethnal Green)
Corfield Street, E2 Corfield Street runs along the route of the former Camden Gardens (Bethnal Green)
Cotherstone Court, E2 Cotherstone Court is a block on Mint Street (Bethnal Green)
Coventry Street, E1 Suffolk Street was renamed to Coventry Street, E2 in 1881 (Bethnal Green)
Crown Works, E2 Crown Works is a small industrial zone off Temple Street (Cambridge Heath)
Culpin House, E2 Culpin House is located on Turin Street (Bethnal Green)
Cymon Street, E2 Cymon Street was near to Turin Street (Bethnal Green)
Daniel Street, Daniel Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Delta Street, E2 Delta Street is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Dence House, E2 Dence House is located on Turin Street (Bethnal Green)
Derbyshire Street, E2 Derbyshire Street originated as part of the Willetts estate (Bethnal Green)
Dickinson House, E2 Dickinson House is sited on Turin Street (Bethnal Green)
Dinmont House, E2 Dinmont House forms a block on the Dinmont Estate (Cambridge Heath)
Dinmont Street, E2 Dinmont Street was built in 1822 (Cambridge Heath)
Durant Street, E2 Durant Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Durham Place, E2 Durham Place fronted Hackney Road until 1862 (Cambridge Heath)
Ellsworth Street, E2 Ellsworth Street is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Elwin Street, E2 Elwin Street is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Emma Street, E2 Emma Street started as a street bounding the Bethnal Green Gas Works (Cambridge Heath)
Esker Place, E2 Esker Place was formed after post-war reconstruction (Cambridge Heath)
Felix Street, E2 Felix Street was part of the Parmiter’s Estate when built in 1812 (Cambridge Heath)
Florida Street, E2 Florida Street leads east from Squirries Street (Bethnal Green)
Fox Street, Fox Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Gainford House, E2 Gainford House is a block on Ellsworth Street (Bethnal Green)
Gales Gardens, E2 Gales Gardens is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Garner Street, E2 Garner Street was originally Gloucester Street (Cambridge Heath)
George Gardens, George Gardens is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Gibraltar Gardens, E2 Gibraltar Gardens was a small Bethnal Green road (Bethnal Green)
Gillett House, E2 Gillett House is a block on Turin Street (Bethnal Green)
Gillman House, E2 Gillman House is a block on Pritchard’s Road (Cambridge Heath)
Gillman Street, E2 Wolverley Street - which became Gillman Street in 1886 - was built by Joseph Teale in 1836 (Cambridge Heath)
Glass Street, E2 Glass Street is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Gosset Street, E2 Gosset Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Gossett Street, Gossett Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Grace Allen Court, E2 Grace Allen Court can be found on Goldsmiths Row (Bethnal Green)
Granby Row, Granby Row is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Granby Street, Granby Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Granby Street, E2 Granby Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Greenheath Business Centre, E2 Greenheath Business Centre is a Bethnal Green commercial area (Bethnal Green)
Grove Street, E2 Lower Grove Street was called Grove Street after 1867 (Bethnal Green)
Gwilym Maries House, E2 Residential block (Bethnal Green)
Hackney Road, E2 Hackney Road, part of the parish boundary, was referred to in 1587 as the ’highway from Shoreditch to Mare Street’ and, as Collier’s Lane, dated from 1439 or earlier (Bethnal Green)
Hague Street, E2 Hague Street was built in 1826 (Bethnal Green)
Haig House, E2 Haig House is a block on Shipton Street (Bethnal Green)
Hector House, E2 Hector House is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road (Bethnal Green)
Helen House, E2 Helen House is sited on Temple Street (Cambridge Heath)
Herald Street, E2 Herald Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Hollybush Gardens, E2 Hollybush Gardens is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Hollybush House, E2 Hollybush House is a block on Hollybush Gardens (Bethnal Green)
Hollybush Place, E2 Hollybush Place is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Horatio House, E2 Horatio House is a block on Horatio Street (Bethnal Green)
Horatio Street, Horatio Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Horatio Street, E2 Horatio Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Howard Place, E2 Howard Place was formerly part of Hackney Road (Cambridge Heath)
Huddleston Close, E2 Huddleston Close was built by the Victoria Park Housing Association (Cambridge Heath)
Hugh Platt House, E2 Hugh Platt House is a block on Patriot Square (Bethnal Green)
Hutton House, E2 Hutton House is a block on Turin Street (Bethnal Green)
Ion Court, E2 Ion Court is located on Columbia Road (Bethnal Green)
Ion Square, E2 Ion Square is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Ivimey Street, E2 Ivimey Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Jacquard Court, E2 Jacquard Court is a block on Bishops Way (Cambridge Heath)
James Docherty House, E2 James Docherty House, on the Approach Estate, stands on Patriot Square (Bethnal Green)
James Middleton House, E2 James Middleton House is a block on Middleton Street (Bethnal Green)
Jellicoe House, E2 Jellicoe House is a block on Ropley Street (Bethnal Green)
Jersey Street, E2 Jersey Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
John Cartwright House, E2 John Cartwright House is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road (Bethnal Green)
Johnson House, E2 Johnson House is a block on Roberta Street (Bethnal Green)
Joseph Priestley House, E2 Joseph Priestley House is a block on Canrobert Street (Bethnal Green)
Karslake House, E2 Karslake House is a block on Gibraltar Walk (Bethnal Green)
Karstake House, E2 Karstake House dates from 1963 (Bethnal Green)
Kay Street, E2 Kay Street started life as Gloucester Place in 1826 (Cambridge Heath)
Keeling House, E2 Keeling House is a block on Claredale Street (Cambridge Heath)
Kelsey Street, E2 Kelsey Street was called Cross Street until 1869 (Bethnal Green)
Mansford Street, Mansford Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Mansford Street, E2 Mansford Street was known as Elizabeth Street until 1876 (Bethnal Green)
Maple Street, E2 Maple Street is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Margerie Court, E2 Margerie Court can be found on Clare Street (Cambridge Heath)
Mary James House, E2 Mary James House is a block on St Peter’s Square (Bethnal Green)
Matilda Street, E2 Bellona Street became Matilda Street before it disappeared from the map in the 1940s (Bethnal Green)
Matthew’s Place, E2 Matthew’s Place was built next to a factory on Hackney Road (Cambridge Heath)
Maud Richards Court, E2 Maud Richards Court is a block on Ellen Phillips Lane (Bethnal Green)
Maude House, E2 Maude House is a building on Bath Grove (Bethnal Green)
Mayfield House, E2 Mayfield House is a block on Cambridge Heath Road (Mile End)
McKinnon Wood House, E2 McKinnon Wood House is a block on Turin Street (Bethnal Green)
Middleton Street, E2 Middleton Street was built after 1857 (Bethnal Green)
Millennium Place, E2 Millennium Place dates from 1993 (Cambridge Heath)
Minerva Street, E2 Minerva Street was developed as part of the Cambridge Heath Estate (Cambridge Heath)
Minstrel Court, E2 Minstrel Court is a block on Teesdale Close (Cambridge Heath)
Minto Place, Minto Place is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Miss Chapel, Miss Chapel is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Museum Passage, E2 Museum Passage crosses the northern edge of Museum Gardens (Mile End)
Nant Street, E2 Nant Street is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Nelson Gardens, E2 Nelson Gardens runs off Old Bethnal Green Road (Bethnal Green)
Nestor House, E2 Nestor House is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road (Cambridge Heath)
Netteswell House, E2 Netteswell House is a building on Old Ford Road (Mile End)
New Tyson Street, New Tyson Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Norah Street , Norah Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Old Bethnal Green Road, E2 Old Bethnal Green Road had a series of rather racy names until the nineteenth century (Bethnal Green)
Orange Street, Orange Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Palestine Place, E2 Palestine Place led east from Cambridge Heath Road (Cambridge Heath)
Paradise Row, E2 Paradise Row is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Paris House, E2 Paris House is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road (Cambridge Heath)
Parmiter Street, E2 Parmiter Street was originally Gloucester Street - laid out in 1826 and built by 1836 (Cambridge Heath)
Patriot Square, E2 Patriot Square was built on a portion of the Pyotts estate (Bethnal Green)
Peel Grove, E2 Peel Grove is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Pollard Place, E2 Pollard Place ran off Pollard Row (Bethnal Green)
Pollard Row, E2 Pollard Row runs north from Florida Street in Bethnal Green (Bethnal Green)
Pollard Street, E2 Pollard Street is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Pott Street, E2 Pott Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Poyser Street, E2 Poyser Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Priam House, E2 Priam House is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road (Cambridge Heath)
Prospect Place, E2 Prospect Place was a former street of Cambridge Heath (Cambridge Heath)
Pundersons Gardens, E2 Pundersons Gardens is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Quilter Street, E2 Quilter Street is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Rob Street, Rob Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Roberta Street, E2 Roberta Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Roger Dowley Close, E2 Roger Dowley Close is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Roger Dowley Court, E2 Roger Dowley Court is a block on Russia Lane (Cambridge Heath)
Rosemoon House, E2 Rosemoon House is a block on Voss Street (Bethnal Green)
Rushmead, E2 Rushmead is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Sale Street, E2 Sale Street once ran much further east (Bethnal Green)
Sanchia Court, E2 Sanchia Court is a block on Wellington Row (Bethnal Green)
Sanger House, E2 Sanger House is sited on Turin Street (Bethnal Green)
Satchwell Kents, Satchwell Kents is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Satchwell Rents, E2 Satchwell Rents owes its origins to a set of buildings dating from 1689 (Bethnal Green)
Satchwell Road, E2 Satchwell Road dates from the 1950s (Bethnal Green)
Satchwell Street, Satchwell Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Seabright Street, E2 Seabright Street is a shadow of its former self (Bethnal Green)
Seabright Terrace, E2 Seabright Place was a terrace along Hackney Road (Cambridge Heath)
Sebright House, E2 Sebright House is a block on Kay Street (Cambridge Heath)
Seth Court, E2 Seth Court is a block on Parmiter Street (Cambridge Heath)
Sheldon Place, Sheldon Place is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Sheppard House, E2 Sheppard House is a block on St Peter’s Close (Bethnal Green)
Shipton Street, E2 Shipton Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Silk Weaver Way, E2 Silk Weaver Way connects Bishops Way and Parmiter Street (Cambridge Heath)
Snell House, E2 Snell House is a block on Turin Street (Bethnal Green)
Squerries Street, Squerries Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Squirries Street, E2 Squirries Street is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
St Jude Street, St Jude Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
St Judes Road, E2 St Judes Road is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
St Matthews Row, E2 The parish of St Matthew, with its church here, was formed out of the parent parish of Stepney in 1743. (Bethnal Green)
St Peter’s Close, E2 St Peter’s Close lies near to St Peter’s in Bethnal Green (Bethnal Green)
St Peter’s Square, E2 St Peter’s Square lies behind St Peter’s, Bethnal Green (Bethnal Green)
Stapleton House, E2 Stapleton House is a block on Ellsworth Street (Bethnal Green)
Stockton House, E2 Residential block (Bethnal Green)
Stuart House, E2 Stuart House stands in an area of the Avebury Estate (Bethnal Green)
Sturdee House, E2 Sturdee House is a block on Horatio Street (Bethnal Green)
Suffolk Place, E2 Suffolk Place, built in 1812, became part of Hackney Road in 1862 (Cambridge Heath)
Tarrant House, E2 Tarrant House is a block on Roman Road (Bethnal Green)
Ted Roberts House, E2 Ted Roberts House is a block on Parmiter Street (Cambridge Heath)
Teesdale Close, E2 Teesdale Close, now a short street, was previously part of Teesdale Street which was split into two post-war (Cambridge Heath)
Teesdale Street, E2 Teesdale Street was Durham Street until 1875 (Cambridge Heath)
Teesdale Yard, E2 Teesdale Yard is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Cambridge Heath)
Temple Street, E2 Temple Street formed the eastern boundary of the Rush Mead estate by 1821 (Cambridge Heath)
Temple Yard, E2 Temple Yard is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Cambridge Heath)
The Green House, E2 The Green House is a block on Cambridge Heath Road (Cambridge Heath)
Thomas Burt House, E2 Thomas Burt House can be found on Canrobert Street (Bethnal Green)
Thornaby House, E2 Thornaby House is located on Canrobert Street (Bethnal Green)
Thorold Street, Thorold Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Threaders Apartments, E2 Threaders Apartments is a block on Jersey Street (Bethnal Green)
Tillett Way, E2 Tillett Way commemorates Ben Tillett, pioneer of dockers’ unions. (Bethnal Green)
Torrance House, E2 Torrance House is a block on Turin Street (Bethnal Green)
Treadway Street, E2 Treadway Street was originally called Hope Street (Cambridge Heath)
Tredway Street, Tredway Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Tria Apartments, E2 Tria Apartments is a block on Durant Street (Bethnal Green)
Turin Street, E2 Turin Street was originally known as ’Hope Town’ (Bethnal Green)
Tussah House, E2 Tussah House is a block on Russia Lane (Cambridge Heath)
Tyrell Street, E2 Tyrell Street appears on maps between the 1830s and 1900s (Bethnal Green)
Vallance Road, E2 The Bethnal Green end of Vallance Road was originally called White Street (Bethnal Green)
Verdigris Apartments, E2 Verdigris Apartments is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road (Bethnal Green)
Viaduct Place, E2 Viaduct Place connects Viaduct Street with Seabright Street (Bethnal Green)
Viaduct Street, E2 Viaduct Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Violet Turner Court, E2 Violet Turner Court is a building on Kay Street (Cambridge Heath)
Voss Street, E2 Voss Street is the successor to an interlinked series of alleyways behind Bethnal Green Road (Bethnal Green)
Warner Place, E2 Warner Place is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Wear Place, E2 Wear Place is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Wellington Place, Wellington Place is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Wellington Row, E2 Wellington Row is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Westhope House, E2 Westhope House is a block on Derbyshire Street (Bethnal Green)
White Street, E2 White Street was the former name for part of Vallance Road (Bethnal Green)
William Caslon House, E2 William Caslon House is a block on Patriot Square (Cambridge Heath)
William Channing House, E2 William Channing House is a block on Canrobert Street (Bethnal Green)
Wilmot Street, E2 Wilmot Street is one of the older Bethnal Green streets (Bethnal Green)
Wimbolt Street, E2 Wimbolt Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Winbolt Street, Winbolt Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Winifred Young Court, E2 Winifred Young Court is a block on Kay Street (Cambridge Heath)
Winkley Street, E2 Winkley Street was Catherine Street until 1938 (Cambridge Heath)
Witan Street, E2 Witan Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Wolverley Street, Wolverley Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Wyndham Deedes House, E2 Wyndham Deedes House is a block on Hackney Road (Bethnal Green)
Yates House, E2 Yates House is a block on Roberta Street (Bethnal Green)
Yorkton Street, E2 Yorkton Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Zander Court, E2 Zander Court, alphabetically, is one of the last addresses in London (Bethnal Green)


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