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According to Chambers' London Gazzetteer, Liverpool Street takes its name from Lord Liverpool, Prime Minister from 1812 to 1827. Although Great Eastern Railway services started operating in the 1840s, it was not until 1874 that Liverpool Street station replaced Bishopsgate as the London terminus. So there, and thanks DG for an interesting and entertaining start to Saturday.
The Eastern Counties Railway opened between Romford and London on 18 June 1839. The temporary London terminus was at Devonshire Street, Mile End.
I would have guessed a connection to Lord Liverpool - Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool. His father inherited a baronetcy and was an MP, and served as Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster, but I'm not sure why he chose Liverpool for the earldom.
I'm amazed you don't have 'The Streets of London' by Shiela Fairfield (ISBN 0 333 28649 9) which gives the history of the names of 4,000 London streets. This also confirms that Liverpool Street was named after former Prime Minister Lord Liverpool.
Linking your two posts, Barking Abbey might still be important to students at the school of the same name, and in who 30 years time will be.... 48 !
There's also Hainault, which has a namesake in Belgium (the province of which Mons is the capital) although apparently the etymology is an example of convergent evolution - Phillippa of Hainault (consort of Edward III - most famous for successfully interceding for him to spare the lives of the burghers of Calais following its surrender) was not an Essex girl.
Cheers, I've updated the Liverpool Street bit.
Does Tottenhall/Tottenham Court actually have anything to do with Tottenham in North London, or is it another case of convergent evolution?
Others have beaten me about the Lord Liverpool bit. There are a few books around with the etymology of tube station names which would make a great series of posts: knights really did fight on a bridge and Chiswick Park comes from the Anglo-Saxon 'Cheese farm'.

I do a term's London project in the summer with the boys that I teach and they're always fascinated about this sort of stuff.










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