Where the Streets Have One Name

Strand, Poultry, Minories... explaining our city's mononymic roads.

I defy you to walk through Leytonstone and not encounter some kind of roadside oddity. Happens to me every time in these parts. Last week, I chanced across a turning called Corbicum. Not Corbicum Close or Corbicum Road. Just Corbicum.

Deliciously odd. When you think about it, though, some of London’s most famous streets consist of just one name. Piccadi…