Place Name
Originally called Norton Lane, so called after Norton Field after the North Field “another great tract” of agricultural land that surrounded Barnes, this one running from the north of the high street up to the “damp margins of today’s Castelnau peninsula”. The field itself was later called Windmill Field and Northtown. From sometime around 1800 this street was called Goodenough Lane after a former resident James Goodenough who was paying rates for it in 1793. But in 1910 it changed its name to Grange Road after the name of a property that was on the corner facing the Green. Grange, which means an outlying farm with tithe barns belonging to a monastery or lord of the manor, was a popular name for country houses.
