New Holland. The name given to what is now Australia by its Dutch settlers in 1606 after their Mother Country.
Newington. Expresses the new settlement in the meadow.
Newington Butts. The site of the archery butts in South London corresponding to those of Moorfields in the north.
Newington Causeway. This was the first road or causeway across the swampy fields of South London beyond the “Borough.”
New Jersey. In honour of Sir George Cartaret, the gallant defender of Jersey Island against the Parliamentary forces in 1664.
Newman Street. After the builder on the site.
New Orleans. The name given to the French settlement in the New World after the city in the Mother Country.
New Pye Street. See “[New Way].”
New Scotland Yard. The new headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, occupying a site which has not the slightest connection with its name, and devoid of all historic interest further than that its foundations were laid for a Metropolitan Opera House, the building of which went no further. With the transference of the Police Department from “Scotland Yard” the old name was retained.
New Southgate. The modern residential district in the vicinity of the entrance to the enclosed hunting ground extending northward to Enfield, anciently known as Enfield Chase.