Powell Road, E5

Place Name

Named after the Powell family who were first recorded as Hackney landowners in 1745. In 1840 the Reverend Baden Powell of Newick gave land known as the Strawberry Gardens for the site St James’s Church. The Reverend Baden Powell’s son was Robert Baden Powell founder of the Boy Scout movement.

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