title: Street names of Vauxhall
text: # 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
  