Place Name A relatively late redevelopment, this small square, off Hill Rise, wasn’t opened until 1978. It is named after…
Place Name Like Hill Rise, which this road leads onto the name is literal, the road leading to the hill. James…
Place Name Unsurprisingly, this denotes the point where the hill starts, since intrinsic features of a road generate appropriate names.…
Place Name Surprisingly, the park being referred to here is not the more obvious, to modern eyes, Kew Gardens but…
Place Name Surprisingly, the park being referred to here is not the more obvious, to modern eyes, Kew Gardens but…
Place Name Originally Hermitage Road, when it was first named in 1860. It took its present name in 1930. The…
Place Name John Haverfield (1705 – October 1784) was the chief gardener of the royal gardens at Richmond and Kew to…
Place Name William Page Wood (November 29, 1801 – July 10, 1881), 1st Baron Hatherley, was a lawyer and statesman who…
Place Name Named after Halford House which was built in 1710 on former agricultural land called Church Shot. John Halford,…
Place Name The original Grove Road was far longer but was split into two during Phase II of the development…