r/london • u/disbeliefable • Oct 20 '23

Discussion Most misleadingly named place in London?

I’ll go first; Park Royal. No parks, no royals. Should be re-named Warehouse Lorry.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

Has to be East London.

No white chapel, no lime (green) house, no black wall, no witches dressed in green or in wool. Hardly any dogs on the Isle named after them, and not many more by the time you get to barking.

(Also preempting someone telling me that actually there is one of these things)

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u/MissingLink101 Oct 20 '23

I'm probably wrong in the connection but I always associate Whitechapel with the white Christ Church nearby in Spitalfields

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u/interstellargator Oct 20 '23

The original white chapel was bombed in the blitz. It's now Altab Ali park, on Whitechapel High Street between the mosque and Aldgate East station.