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