The county of Kent lies on the southeastern tip of Great Britian. It is bordered to the north by what is considered Greater London and to the south by the English Channel. Due to its location, in such close proximity to the European continent, it has has been subject to many invasions by the Romans, Jutes, Saxons, and Normans. Evidence of Romans architecture has been unearthed in modern day Canterbury, a town within Kent. In the 19th century, rapid industrialism led to the growth of London and the suberbs of London, increasingly encroaching on surrounding counties and towns.

The British Museum is located in the Bloomsbury area of London and was the first national public museum in the world. It first opened in 1759 and covered all fields of human knowledge, but it was founded on enlightenment values and knowledge. The British Museum is mentioned in Monica Ali's Brick Lane. It is only mentioned once as a question from Chanu to a conductor: 

Bethnal Green Road is one of the streets near where Chanu and Naznee live in, "Brick Lane." They describe the road as grimy because they feel as if they have been restricted to only seeing these few streets during their time in London, and not going out and exploring the rest of the foreign city. Bethnal Green is located on the East End of London, in the Tower Hamlets sector.

Lincoln's Inn Hall is one of four Inns of Court in London. Its origins are unkown since it predates documentation of the governing council's minutes, but it became a formally organized in of court in the year 1310. In Bleak House, it is the setting of The Court of Chancery, a legal body heavily criticized by Dickens for its inefficiency.

Brick Lane is a street in the East End of London leading from Bethnal Green towards Whitechapel, and today is the heart of London’s Bangladeshi community. It is known for its many curry houses, vintage shops, and international food. 

Commercial Road is a street in the East End of London that serves as a connection bewteen London's historic district and the newly developed financial district at Canary Wharf. The road is just short of 2 miles long and was orignally constructed to serve as a direct link between the West India Docks and the East India Docks.

Brackley is a market town in West Northamptonshire and a parish for the local government, close to Oxford. Johnson recalls in "Inglan is a Bitch" that "dem have a lickle factri up inna Brackly" (LIne 43). Johnson had worked in a factory there for 15 years until he was laid off, and implied that he had no worth in the company despite the 15 years of labor, not that he was paid well regardless. The song was released in 1980, and fifty years prior in 1930, Brackely had just demolished its Poor Law Union.

Cable Street is near the edge of the City of London financial district, and continues through Whitechapel, Shadwell, and Stepney. This street is famous for the citizen defeat of Nazi sympathizer Oswald Mosley, known as the Battle of Cable Street. In Brick Lane, Nanzeen passes through it on her search for her daughter.

"Nazneen crossed over Cable Street and passed under the railway bridge"