Place Name The naming of this street is long and complicated, only finally settling onto its present moniker in the…
Place Name This street was laid out on market garden land that was inherited by an Elizabeth Taylor in 1838…
Place Name The road that heads to Mortlake. Originally called Mortlake Lane it was the direct route between Mortlake and…
Place Name Directional, this road leads from Mortlake to Richmond. Until 1902 the notions Black Ditch ran along the south…
Place Name One of London’s oldest roads, once used by Anglo-Saxon armies marching westwards, it was renamed in about 1720…
Place Name Originally Little George Street. The road began to be developed in 1569 when a single house was built,…
Place Name The Leybornes were a prominent local family who were lords of the manor of East Sheen and Westhall,…
Place Name As one of Richmond’s oldest streets it has had numerous names down the centuries. The corner of what…
Place Name Features on John Rocque’s 1746 map of Surrey as Horse Road, to distinguish it from Kew Foot Lane.…
Place Name Originally Kew Meadow Path. It was first featured unnamed in the Mortlake Tithe map from 1838. This was…