King’s row, Shad Thames.†
King’s square. See Soho square.
King’s Square court, Dean street, Soho.
King’s stairs, Rotherhith.†
King street. Many of these streets first received their present name, after the restoration, in honour of King Charles II. or of monarchy in general. 1. Bartholomew hospital. 2. Brick lane, Spitalfields. 3. Opposite to Queen street, and leading from Cheapside to Guildhall; so called by the act of parliament, by which it was first ordered to be built after the fire of London. 4. Covent Garden. 5. Duke’s Place. 6. Foul lane, in the Borough. 7. Golden Square. 8. Near Grosvenor square. 9. High Holborn. 10. Hoxton square. 11. St. James’s square. 12. Little Tower hill. 13. Lowman’s street. 14. In the Mint. 15. Near Monmouth street. 16. New Gravel lane. 17. Old Greek street, Soho. 18. Old street square. 19. Oxford street. 20. Piccadilly. 21. Prince’s square. 22. Prince’s street, Soho. 23. Ratcliff Highway. 24. Rosemary lane. 25. Rotherhith wall. 26. Tooley street. 27. Upper Moorfields. 28. Westminster. 29. Wood’s Close, Compton street.
King’s street passage, Little Tower hill.
King’s way, Gray’s Inn lane.
King’s Weigh House. See Weigh House.
King’s yard, 1. Barnaby street. 2. Leather lane, Holborn. 3. Whitecross street, Cripplegate.
Kingsbury, at the west end of St. Alban’s in Hertfordshire, is thus named from the Saxon Kings frequently keeping their court there, till it was purchased by the monks of the neighbouring abbey.