part of his land at Medburn Farm, Hertfordshire for the endowment of Aldenham School Midland Road – after the adjacent railway line, built by the Midland Railway Company; part was formerly Skinner Street, on the Skinners' Company's Estate Oakley Square – as this land was formerly owned by Dukes of Bedford, who also owned land in Oakley, Bedfordshire Ossulston Street – named in 1807 in memory of the Saxon-era hundred of Ossulston, thought to be named after a stone boundary marker at Tyburn (now Marble Arch) erected by one Oswulf/Oswald Pancras Road – after the adjacent St Pancras Old Church, named for the Roman-era Christian martyr Pancras of Rome Phoenix Road – thought to be after a former tavern of this name; formerly Phoenix Street Platt Street – after Richard Platt, 16th century brewer, who donated this land to the Worshipful Company of Brewers, who built this street in 1848-53 Polygon Road – after the Polygon, a 17th-century housing development here instigated by Jacob Leroux and Job Hoare Purchese Street – after Frederick Purchese, local resident, vestryman, county council member and Mayor of St Pancras Werrington Street – after Werrington, Cornwall, where local landowners the dukes of Bedford held land; formerly Clarendon Street References External links An inside view Somers Town Community Association Areas of London Districts of the London Borough of Camden