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Lancaster Avenue, SW19

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Place Name This is one of several roads, so named as they come off of Lancaster Road. This was was…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: cluster, Horatio Nelson, Merton, streets named after priests, Village, Wimbledon

Kipling Drive, SW19

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Place Name Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was a journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: cluster, Merton, streets named after poets, Wandle, Wimbledon

Kingsmere Road, SW19

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Place Name To mark the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887, workmen dammed a stream running through meadowland near…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: fake history, Putney, Wandsworth, West Hill, Wimbledon

Queensmere Road, SW19

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Place Name Originally Durham Road. In 1923 a drainage application incorporating a Plan of Proposed Layout was submitted for The…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Putney, Queen Victoria, Queenmere estate, Southfields, Wandsworth, West Hill

Keats Close, SW19

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Place Name John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, one…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: cluster, Collier's Wood, Merton, streets named after poets, Wandle, Wimbledon

Hanover Road, SW19

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Place Name Once part of the grounds of Abbey Lodge, this was part of the in-fill (developing odd nooks of…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Merton, streets named after housing associations, Wandle, Wimbledon

Francis Grove, SW19

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Place Name This road was built by Daniel (or possibly his father William) Hagon who named it – or perhaps…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Hillside, Merton, misspelt, streets named after women, Wimbledon

Durnsford Avenue, SW19

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Place Name A corrupted reference to Dunsford, a former manor, meaning a ford in the valley, in this case crossing…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Dissolution of the monasteries, Dunsford, Henry Cecil, Henry VIII, Merton, misspelt, Thomas Cromwell, Wimbledon, Wimbledon Park

Derby Road, SW19

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Place name Edward Smith-Stanley (March 29, 1799 – October 23, 1869) was the 14th Earl of Derby. He was known…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Abbey, cluster, Merton, prime ministers, streets named after Christ Church graduates, streets named after Conservatives, streets named after Eton connection, streets named after Oxford graduates, streets named after Whigs, Wimbledon

Chapter Way, SW19

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Place Name A reference to what was once one of the most important buildings in England, the chapter house of…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Collier's Wood, Medieval, Merton, Mitcham and Morden, streets named after religious houses

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