Place Name This is a reference to the wood of the same name three miles away – and was probably…
Place name Previously Suffolk Street West and, more recently, Battle Bridge Road. As names go few evoke a sense of…
Place Name A church has stood in Battersea since as early as AD800. Indeed the church lasted throughout the Middle…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. Today’s name was featured in 1718 referencing a local field which was first mentioned as le…
Place Name Originally plain High Street. The name Battersea was first mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon charters of AD693 as Badrices…
Place Name Originally called Battersea Road, the western section of this thoroughfare was at one time called Lower Wandsworth Road…
Place Name For a street that started as an access road, across farmland to a varnish maker and floorcloth manufacturer…
Place Name This road connected Hayes, via Baston Farm to Keston, across Hayes Common. Although a John de Bastane was…
Place Name Although a John de Bastane was recorded living here in the tax roll for Hayes in 1301, it…
Place Name Named after the powerful Basing family who were prominent in the City at the beginning of the 13thCentury.…