 George Birkbeck (founder of what is now Birkbeck, University of London) lived at Forty Hill in the 1820s.Jesus Church, near Maiden's Bridge, was built in 1835 and the nearby school in 1851.Goat Lane is named after a pub established before 1794 which was replaced by a large building in mock-Elizabethan style in the 1930s; this has since been converted to flats.