Thomas Heneage and Heneage Finch - A wander through history by street names in London

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Heneage Place/HeneageLane and Heneage Street memeorialise two different people, (1) a former Tudor politician, and (2) 19th-century daughter of the Earl of Winchelsea

Heneage Place and Lane refer to the former Palace of the Abbot of Bury St Edmonds, which was given to courtier Sir Thomas Heneage when the monasteries were dissolved (it was on the edge of Holy Trinity Priory)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Thomas Heneage  (1)

Nearby Heneage Street was developed in the georgian period "Between 1799 and 1819, in land known formerly as ’Girle's Ground’ "  Heneage Street (presumably named after Heneage Finch, daughter of the eighth Earl of Winchilsea, who became the second wife of Sir George Osborn), George Street (now Casson Street), John Street (now Spelman Street) and a portion of Chicksand Street. Portions of these streets and a short cul-de-sac called Ramar Place have now been absorbed into the Chicksand estate" 'Mile End New Town', Survey of London: volume 27: Spitalfields and Mile End New Town (1957), pp. 265-288. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50179 Date accessed: 31 July 2014.

Heneage Finch is a name that has gone down through history from Heneage Finch (1580–1631) MP for the City of London and Speaker of the House of Commons

Heneaage Lane - once part of the Bishop of Ely's Palace, given to Thomas heneage, courtier, following dissolutiuon of monasteries

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Heneage Ln, London EC3A 5DQ, UK‎ © 2014 Google

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Head southeast on Heneage Ln toward Creechurch Ln © 2014 Google

go 33 ft total 33 ft

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Turn left onto Creechurch Ln About 1 min © 2014 Google

go 354 ft total 387 ft

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Continue onto Stoney Ln About 1 min © 2014 Google

go 262 ft total 0.1 mi

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Turn right onto White Kennett St © 2014 Google

go 112 ft total 0.1 mi

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White Kennett St turns left and becomes Gravel Ln About 54 secs © 2014 Google

go 318 ft total 0.2 mi

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Turn left onto Middlesex St © 2014 Google

go 207 ft total 0.2 mi

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Turn right onto Wentworth St About 5 mins © 2014 Google

go 0.3 mi total 0.5 mi

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Turn left onto Brick Ln/B134 About 2 mins © 2014 Google

go 0.1 mi total 0.6 mi

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Turn right onto Heneage St © 2014 Google

go 20 ft total 0.6 mi

Heneage St, Stepney E1 5LJ, UK‎ © 2014 Google

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