Agdon Street was originally called Woods Close.
Originally Woods Close, it was a rural avenue planted with trees. Renamed Northampton Street, it became Agdon Street in 1939.
The road name commemorates the local landowners, the Compton family, earls and later marquises of Northampton, who owned a property called Agdon in Warwickshire.
George England (1740-1788) organ builder, lived here.
In 1739, it was reported that people would customarily gather here and ask for an armed patrol to escort them over the fields in the direction of the City of London because of the prevalence of highwaymen and footpads.
