English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Grub Street

Other OS name in the Parish of Happisburgh

Etymology

; the original Grub Street was in the City of London , “ inhabited by writers of small histories , dictionaries and temporary poems ” ( Dr Johnson ) , renamed Milton Street in 1830 . v. Ekwall, Street -Names of the City of London , 85 .