'Homerton' recalls the farm of a woman called Hūnburh.
It was first recorded in 1343, often as Humberton. By 1363 it was a hamlet north of the Hackney Brook, now buried, along a road running east from Hackney village; by 1551 that road was called Humberton Street, and from 1935 Homerton High Street. Remains of an 11th- or 12th-century building found at Link Street suggest the place is older than its first record.