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Liverpool Street

City of London

Named after Lord Liverpool, Prime Minister from 1812 to 1827.

The street was named after him in the 1820s. His title comes from the city of Liverpool, first recorded in 1190 as Liuerpul, probably a pool or creek with muddy water. The station opened in 1875 as Bishopsgate.

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Sources

  1. Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool Wikipedia
  2. Liverpool Street station#Underground stations Wikipedia
  3. How the Central line stations got their names Londonist

This text was written with the help of AI from the sources above and checked against them.