Street names of Vauxhall
# Street names of Vauxhall

This is a list of the toponymy of street names in the London district of Vauxhall. The area has no formally defined boundaries – those utilised here are Black Prince Road to the north, Kennington Road to the north-east, Kennington Park Road/Clapham Road to the south-east, Miles Street/Fentiman Road to the south, and Wandsworth Road/Nine Elms Lane/river Thames to the west.

* Albert Embankment – built in the 1860s over former marshlands, it was named for Albert, Prince Consort, husband of Queen Victoria
* Ashmole Street – after Elias Ashmole, noted 17th century antiquarian, who lived near here
* Auckland Street
* Aveline Street
* Bedser Close – presumably for Alec Bedser, widely regarded as one of the best English cricketers of the 20th century, by association with the nearby Oval Cricket Ground
* Black Prince Road – after Edward the Black Prince, son of Edward III, who owned this land
* Bondway – after the late 18th century developers of this street John and Sarah Bond
* Bonnington Square
* Bowling Green Street – this land was formerly a bowling green leased to the owners of the nearby Horns Tavern
* Brangton Road
* Cardigan Street
* Carroun Road – after the former Carroun, or Caron, House which stood here
* Citadel Place
* Clapham Road – as it leads to the south-west London area of this name
* Claylands Place and Claylands Road – after the former brick clay fields located here prior to 1800
* Clayton Street – after the Clayton family, who leased much of this land from the Duchy of Cornwall from the 1660s on
* Coney Way
* Cottingham Road
* Courtenay Square and Courtenay Street
* Dolland Street
* Durham Street
* Ebbisham Drive
* Elias Place
* Farnham Royal
* Fentiman Road – after local mid-19th century developer John Fentiman
* Glasshouse Walk – after the former Vauxhall Glassworks here, which thrived in the 1700s
* Glyn Street
* Goding Street
* Graphite Square
* Hanover Gardens
* Hansom Mews
* Harleyford Road – after local leaseholders the Claytons, whose country house was Harleyford Manor, Buckinghamshire
* Harold Place
* Jonathan Street – for Jonathan Tyers and his son, managers of the nearby Vauxhall Gardens for much of the 18th century
* Kennington Gardens, Kennington Oval, Kennington Park Road, Kennington Road – after the Old English Chenintune (‘settlement of Chenna’a people’); another explanation is that it means "place of the King", or "town of the King".
* Lambeth Road and South Lambeth Place – refers to a harbour where lambs were either shipped from or to. It is formed from the Old English 'lamb' and 'hythe'.
* Langley Lane
* Laud Street – after William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to 1645, by association with the nearby Lambeth Palace
* Lawn Lane – after a former row of houses here called The Lawn, after their grass plots, demolished in 1889-90
* Leopold Walk
* Lilac Place
* Loughborough Street
* Magee Street
* Meadow Mews and Meadow Road – after the former meadows here attached to Caron House
* Miles Street
* Montford Place
* Newburn Street
* New Spring Gardens Walk – after the former Vauxhall Gardens here
* Nine Elms Lane – after a row of nine elm trees which formerly stood along this lane
* Orsett Street
* Oval Way – after the adjacent Oval Cricket Ground
* Palfrey Place
* Parry Street – after Thomas Parry, 17th century statesman and owner of Copt Hall, a house near here
* Pegasus Place
* Randall Road and Randall Row
* Riverside Walk – simply a descriptive name
* Rudolf Place
* St Oswald's Place
* Salamanca Place and Salamanca Street
* Sancroft Street – after William Sancroft, 79th Archbishop of Canterbury, by association with the nearby Lambeth Palace
* Stables Way
* Stanley Close
* Tinworth Street – after George Tinworth, noted ceramic artist for the Royal Doulton ceramics company at Lambeth
* Trigon Road
* Tyers Street and Tyers Terrace – for Jonathan Tyers and his son, managers of the nearby Vauxhall Gardens for much of the 18th century
* Vauxhall Bridge (and Bridgefoot), Vauxhall Grove, Vauxhall Street and Vauxhall Walk – from the name of Falkes de Breauté, the head of King John's mercenaries, who owned a large house in the area, which was referred to as Faulke's Hall, later Foxhall, and eventually Vauxhall; the Bridge opened in 1816
* Wandsworth Road – as it led to the south-west London area of this name
* Wickham Street
* Windmill Row
* Worgan Street
* Wynyard Terrace
