Place name The name was chosen by the street’s developer, William Peter Griggs (November 1, 1849 – August 11, 1920), a…
Place Name Named after the South African city, in commemoration of the Second Boer War which ran from 1899 –…
Place Name A corruption of the name of the 31-mile River Roding which rises near Dunmow in Essex and flows…
PLACE NAME One of four streets named after important periods in the history of Ilford (and Britain). By the 7thCentury,…
Place name Reverend James Edwin Thorold Rogers (March 23, 1823 – October 14, 1890) was a political economist, liberal MP,…
Place name Takes its name from Wellesley House, the substantial Croydon property, that was home to Jabez Spencer Balfour, property…
Place name Lady Elizabeth Tillotson (around 1639 – 1702) was the widow of John Tillotson, the archbishop of Canterbury and…
Place Name John Tillotson (October 1630 – November 22, 1694) was the archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 until his death.…
Place name Named after the Late Iron Age settlement, the nearby Uphall Camp, an ancient earthwork between the River Roding river and…
Place name The Valentines estate, now called Valentines Park, was first mentioned in a deed dated 1665. However, there is…