Place Name The name of Wanstead is Anglo-Saxon. Written as Wænstede sometime around 1050, it means a settlement by a…
Place name Remembering Sarah Ingleby (December 22, 1823 – January 3, 1906), the last private resident of the Valentines Estate and…
Place Name Holcombe Ingleby (March 18, 1854 – August 6, 1926) was the son of the last private resident of the Valentines…
Place Name West Wood was the former (and perhaps more politically correct) name of the woodland today called Mad Bess…
Place Name A reference to the nearby town of Northwood in Ruislip. The name is literal, meaning a northern wood…
Place Name This was originally a small footpath to St Lawrence’s Church in Little Stanmore which overtime became a rural…
Place Name Directional the road from West Ruislip to the village of Ickenham. The village takes its name from the…
Place Name Running alongside the London Underground and Chiltern Railways line, this street was named after the Great Central Railway which came into…
Place Name Laid out over agricultural land belonging to Hundred Acres Farm, which was originally part of the much larger…
Place Name Descriptive this is named after the Ruislip Lido or Ruislip Reservoir which it overlooks. This was originally opened…