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Broadwater Road, SW17

1 October 2024 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Thought to be a reference to either the Broadwater family, feudal tenants of Tooting Manor, or (more likely)…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: pleasure garden, Tooting, Tooting Bec, Wandsworth

Telegraph Road, SW15

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Place Name Commemorates the telegraph signal station which was set up here by the Admiralty in 1796 to convey messages…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: communications, military, Napoleonic Wars, Putney, Royal Navy, Wandsworth, West Putney

Bridgford Street, SW18

30 September 2024 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Takes its name from Bridgford in Nottinghamshire, now known as West Bridgford. Originally a small agricultural village, its…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Magdalen College, Oxford, Oxford University, streets named after a Nottinghamshire connection, Tooting, Wandsworth, Wandsworth Common

Breamore Close, SW15

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Place Name Breamore, is a village in the west of Hampshire, which is particularly noted for its 10thCentury church, St.…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Anglo-Saxon street name, cluster, Domesday Book, Roehampton, social housing, streets with a Hampshire connection, Wandsworth

Bowling Green Close, SW15

29 September 2024 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Bowling has been popular in Putney since the early 17thCentury, the green that was laid here in 1636…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Crime, Putney, streets named after houses, streets named after sports connections, Wandsworth, West Putney, William Pitt the Younger

Boscombe Road, SW17

28 September 2024 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Takes its name from a suburb of Bournemouth, the name is thought to come from the Old English…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: alphabet streets, Graveney, Merton, Mitcham and Morden, streets named after seaside towns, Tooting Golf Course

Borrodaile Road, SW18

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Place Name William Borradaile (10 July 1792 – February 16, 1838) vicar of Wandsworth in the 1830s, who killed himself,…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Church of England, misspelt, streets named after sports connections, Wandsworth, Wandsworth Town

Lewin Road, SW16

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Place Name According to John W Brown in the Streatham Heritage Trail: Greyhound Lane this road was “laid out in…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Lambeth, Streatham and Croydon North, Streatham St Leonard's

Bordon Walk, SW15

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Place Name Takes its name from Bordon, in the east of Hampshire, dates back only to 1863 when it was…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Alton Estate, Putney, Roehampton, social housing, streets with a Hampshire connection, Wandsworth

Blegborough Road, SW16

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Place Name Dr Ralph Blegborough (April 8, 1769 – January 23, 1827) was a physician and “man mid-wife” whose interest…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Furzedown, medicine, streets named after doctors, Tooting, Wandsworth

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