A street within the SE1 postcode
The Ring The Ring was a boxing stadium which once stood on Blackfriars Road in Southwark. Angel Place, SE1 Angel Place was the site of the Marshalsea Prison between 1811 and 1842. Baden Place, SE1 Baden Place 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. Copperfield Street, SE1 Copperfield Street was named after the novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, by association with nearby Dickens Square. Crosby Row, SE1 Crosby Row is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area. Disney Place, SE1 Disney Place is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area. Doyce Street, SE1 Doyce Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area. Ewer Street, SE1 Ewer 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. Lant Street, SE1 Lant Street derives its name from the Lant family who inherited the estates known as Southwark Olace. Loman Street, SE1 Loman Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area. Marshalsea Road, SE1 Marshalsea Road was previously called Mint Street after a royal Tudor coin mint in the area. Mint Street, SE1 Mint Street, an ancient Southwark street, (now) runs off Marchelsea Road. Sawyer Street, SE1 Sawyer Street is named after Bob Sawyer, a character in the novel The Pickwick Papers by local resident Charles Dickens. 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. Surrey Row, SE1 Surrey Row is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area. Surrey Rowe, SE1 Surrey Rowe 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. Talbot Yard, SE1 Talbot Yard used to host one of the most famous inns in English literature. The Foundry, SE1 The Foundry is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area. The Mews, SE1 The Mews is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area. Vine Yard, SE1 Vine Yard is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area. Weller Street, SE1 Weller Street is one of several local streets named after Dickens characters.
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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