Why Is Liverpool Street In London So Named?
I pass through Liverpool Street station in London several times a week. As I have strong educational and connections to Liverpool, I’d started to wonder why the street that gives the station is so named.
Liverpool Street is the street that lies in front of the main south entrance to the station and you cross it going between the heart of the City of London and the station.
It is obviously, a road that doesn’t go or point anywhere near Liverpool.
So it is either a name chosen by some developer in the mists of time or perhaps it is named after a historical figure.
The obvious candidate is one of the Earls of Liverpool. According to Wikipedia, it was named after the Second Earl of Liverpool, who was Prime Minister from 1812 to 1827.
Wikipedia doesn’t record if he visited the city after which his title was named.
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