Place Name Tangley is a small, village in the northwest of Hampshire. The name itself is Anglo Saxon and is…
Place Name Originally St John’s Road. The name changed shortly after the Second World War. The Polish Church of St…
Place Name Named for the nearby St Barnabas church. Barnabas was one of the disciples, who carried out missionary journeys…
Place Name Originally called The Grove. Like St Ann’s Crescent, which was, confusingly, called St Anne’s Hill, it is named…
Place Name Curiously while St Ann’s Crescent has retained its apostrophe throughout the decades, it has lost an e in…
Place Name Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909) was one of the bad boys of poetry…
Place Name Agricultural. This was once a lane leading to Swain’s Farm, which was developed for housing between the wars.…
Place Name Agricultural. Until the 1980s this was a former industrial site with both gas works and a coal depot,…
Place Name Named for the manor and village of Swaby in Lincolnshire, where Magdalen College, Oxford, held patronage, giving it…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. Until this area was developed ion the late 19thCentury it was farmland and, as the name…