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"Let's all...go down The Strand"...No! (Image by murphyz in the Londonist Flickr pool.)

Definite Article: London Places That Drop The ‘The’

It’s Londonist, not The Londonist. OK?

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Name The New Streets Of King’s Cross

New development seeks your input.

A ride on the Belsize Elephant line?

The Barons Cock Line: Alternative Names For London’s Tubes

What if other Underground lines followed the naming style of the Bakerloo?

The Sir Richard Steele gets a paint job.

London Pubs Named After Sort-Of-Famous People

Who was Sir John Oldcastle, and where can you find a pub dedicated to the creator of King Kong?

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Londoners With Slightly Unusual Middle Names

Mungo, Zenon, Newbold…de Pfeffel?

Man in the Moon Passage off Piccadilly.

The A-Z Of Odd London Street Names (Part 2)

Another selection of peculiar street names from round the capital.

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Did You Know…? Heathrow’s Roads Are Alphabetically Coded

Throwaway fact of the day. Have you ever noticed that most of the roads around Heathrow Airport begin with the same letter as their compass direction? So, for example, all those to the North begin with an N; all those to the East with an …