1921 - Peculiar London Names

London Town (England) has many curious names incorporated in its streets and squares which embody strange incidents or are of peculiar origin. The derivations of the name of the city itself would fill a page but one authority gives the name as derived from the Celtic Luan-dun, City of the Moon, and tradition has it that there was once a temple of Diana where St. Paul's now stands. Similarly Greenwich is supposed to be derived from Gran-wick, also Celtic, meaning City of the Sun. London's also to be derived from Lud's Town, so called from Lud, said to be a mythical king of Britain.