This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London districts of Pimlico and Victoria. The area has no formally defined boundaries – those utilised here are the generally accepted ones of: Vauxhall Bridge Road to the north-east, the river Thames to the south, the Victoria railway line, Buckingham Palace Road/Buckingham Gate/Grosvenor Gardens to the west and Lower Grosvenor Place/Bressenden Place to the north. Victoria is a vaguely defined area, but is generally used to refer to streets immediately around the station of that name.
Alderney Street – this street was changed to ‘Alderley Street’ in 1879, in honour of the Stanley of Alderley family; however they were not pleased with this move and so the name was changed; prior to this it was Stanley Street, after George Stanley, local landowner[1][2]
Aylesford Street – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family Estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is one[4]
Balniel Gate
Balvaird Place
Beeston Place – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate; the family owned land in Beeston, Cheshire[5]
Bulleid Way - close to Victoria Station, this street was named after O V S Bulleid, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway from 1937 to 1948.[citation needed]
Buonaparte Mews
Cambridge Street – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is one[4]
Charlotte Place
Charlwood Place and Charlwood Street – after Henry Wise, local 18th century landowner and gardener to William III, who owned land in Charlwood, Surrey[12][13]
Chichester Street – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is one[4]
Churton Place and Churton Street – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family Estate; they owned land in Churton, Cheshire[14][15]
Clarendon Street – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family Estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is one[4]
Claverton Street – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate; they owned land in Claverton, Cheshire[14][4]
Colonnade Walk – presumably simply descriptive
Cumberland Street – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is one[4]
Dell's Mews
Denbigh Place and Denbigh Street – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is one[4]
Dolphin Square – after the 'dolphin' formerly located here; it was a pump for drawing out river water[16]
Drummond Gate
Eaton Lane – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate; the family owned land in Eaton, Cheshire[17][18]
Ebury Bridge – as this area was formerly part of the manor of Ebury, thought to have originated as a Latinisation of the Anglo-Saxontoponym ‘eyai’, which means ‘island’[19] in reference to a marsh that once dominated the area; the bridge here formerly stood over a small stream[20][18]
Gillingham Mews, Gillingham Row and Gillingham Street – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is one[4]
Glasgow Terrace
Gloucester Street – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is one[4]
Grosvenor Gardens, Grosvenor Gardens Mews, Grosvenor Road and Lower Grosvenor Place – as this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate[14][23]
Guildhouse Street – after the Guild House, which formerly stood near here on Eccleston Square from 1922 to 1946[24][25]
Hudson's Place – after the Hudson's furniture depository formerly located here, founded by William Hudson[26]
Hugh Mews and Hugh Street – after Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, whose family owned much of the surrounding land (though Hugh was a common name in the family and another individual may have been intended)[27][26]
Johnson's Place – after John Johnson, Victorian-era local paviour/owner[28][4][29]
Lindsay Square
Longmoore Street – after the marshes formerly located here[30]
Moreton Place, Moreton Street and Moreton Terrace – after Henry Wise, local 18th century landowner and gardener to William III, who owned land near Moreton Morrell, Warwickshire[12][13]
Neathouse Place – after either an early settlement here of small cottages dubbed ‘neat houses’, or the Neate, a medieval manor located in Pimlico, stemming from a word meaning 'islet'[33][34]
St George's Drive, St George's Square and St George's Square Mews – after the manor of St George's, Hanover Square which originally stretched to the Thames, and was named for George I[41][42]
Simon Milton Square – after Simon Milton, late 20th century/early 21st century Conservative politician
Sussex Street – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is one[4]
Sutherland Row and Sutherland Street – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate, several members of whom married into the Duke of Sutherland family[43]
Tachbrook Street and Upper Tachbrook Street – after Henry Wise, local 18th century landowner and gardener to William III, who owned land near Bishop's Tachbrook, Warwickshire[12][13]
Warwick Place North, Warwick Row, Warwick Square, Warwick Square Mews, Warwick Way, West Warwick Place – after Henry Wise, local 18th century landowner and gardener to William III, who owned land in Warwickshire[52][13]
West Mews – a shortening of its pre-1936 name Warwick Place Mews West[53]
Westmoreland Place and Westmoreland Terrace – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is one[4]
Winchester Street – this land was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate; as the last of their lands to be developed they had seemingly run out of eponymous names from themselves, so they chose various pleasant-sounding aristocratic titles, of which this is one[4]