This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London district of Belgravia. The following utilises the generally accepted boundaries of the area viz. South Carriage Drive to the north, Grosvenor Gardens/Place/Square to the east, Buckingham Palace Road/Victoria railway line to the south-east and Chelsea Bridge Road, Lower Sloane Street/Sloane Square/Sloane Street to the west.
Boscobel Place – after a former pub here called the Royal Oak, by association with Charles II who hid from Parliamentary forces in the Royal Oak at Boscobel House[9][10]
Chester Close, Chester Cottages, Chester Mews, Chester Row, Chester Square, Chester Square Mews, Chester Street and Little Chester Street – after local landowners the Grosvenors (titled Viscounts Belgrave), who owned land in Chester[26][27]
Cliveden Place – after local landowners the Grosvenors (titled Viscounts Belgrave), who owned Cliveden House in Buckinghamshire in the late 19th century[28][29]
Cundy Street – after Thomas Cundy and his son, surveyors to local landowners the Grosvenors in the 19th century[30][31]
Dorset Mews – presumably after the Dorset landholding of the Grosvenor family
Dove Walk
D'Oyley Street – after Sarah D'Oyley, who inherited land here from her grandfather Hans Sloane[32][33]
Duplex Rid
Eaton Close, Eaton Mews North, Eaton Mews South, Eaton Mews West, Eaton Place, Eaton Row, Eaton Square, Eaton Terrace, Eaton Terrace Mews, South Eaton Place and West Eaton Place – after local landowners the Grosvenors (titled Viscounts Belgrave), whose family seat is Eaton Hall, Cheshire[34][35]
Ebury Bridge Road, Ebury Mews, Ebury Mews East, Ebury Square and Ebury Street – as this area was formerly part of the manor of Ebury, thought to have originated as a Latinisation of the Anglo-Saxontoponym 'eyai', which means 'island'[36] in reference to a marsh that once dominated the area[37][35]
Eccleston Mews and Eccleston Place – after local landowners the Grosvenors (titled Viscounts Belgrave), who owned land in Eccleston, Cheshire[37][29]
Graham Terrace – formerly Graham Street[43] after its 19th century lessee/builder William Graham[44][45]
Groom Place – after a former pub here called the Horse and Groom[46]
Grosvenor Cottages, Grosvenor Crescent, Grosvenor Crescent Mews, Grosvenor Gardens, Grosvenor Gardens Mews North, Grosvenor Gardens Mews South, Grosvenor Place and Grosvenor Road – after local landowners the Grosvenors (titled Viscounts Belgrave)[5][47]
Halkin Arcade, Halkin Street and West Halkin Street – after local landowners the Grosvenors (titled Viscounts Belgrave), who owned Halkyn Castle in Wales[48][29]
Harriet Street and Harriet Walk – after Harriet Lowndes of the Lowndes family, former local landowners[49][25]
Holbein Mews and Holbein Place – after Hans Holbein the Younger, who painted local families for a period in the 1520s; its former name was The Ditch, as it lay next to the river Westbourne[52][53]
Kinnerton Place North, Kinnerton Place South, Kinnerton Street and Kinnerton Yard – after local landowners the Grosvenors (titled Viscounts Belgrave), who owned land in Lower Kinnerton, Cheshire[54][29]