Etymology

Turkey Street

Today it means: A neighbourhood in the borough of Enfield, Greater London, England, historically in Middlesex, on a road of the same name (OS grid ref TQ3598). Full definition →

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The story

First recorded as Tokestreete in 1441 when it was a hamlet, thus not named after the country or the bird. It was shown as a hamlet on an OS map published in 1945.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.