The name Cambrai Court (off Cambrai Street) was proposed by the Woodvale Housing Association and accepted at the Health and Environmental Services Committee, Monday, 8th December, 1997. The name refers to an apartment block rather than a street.
An article headed 'American war will make the fortunes of the Belfast people' from the News Letter, August 16, 1864 indicates that Johnston and Carlisle had started a linen mill in 1850. It is clear that the "Cambrai streets" take their name from this linen connection. Cambrai is a city in Picardy, France, where Cambric, a particularly fine form of linen, was originally made.