Place Name Remembering Elizabeth Langton who gave the freehold of her estate to New College, Oxford, in 1504. The widow…
Place Name William of Wykeham (1320 or 1324 – September 27, 1404) was Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor of England and,…
Place Name New College, Oxford, was given the land by Robert Sherborne, the then Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral who…
Place Name Thomas Ken (July 1637 – March 19, 1711) was the Bishop of Bath and Wells at the time…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. A worple is a common term in south east English road names as it refers to…
Place Name Running adjacent to Yeading Brook, which took its name from the very early Saxon settlement of Geddinges, meaning the…
Place Name Henry Montagu Butler (July 2, 1833 – January 14, 1918) served, like his father, as the headmaster of…
Place Name The colourful GP Edward William Flemyng Stiven was a Scot who grew up in India. He came to Harrow…
Place Name Joseph Drury (February 11, 1750 – January 9, 1834) was headmaster of Harrow School between 1785 and 1805, and…
Place Name Remembering the English Civil War and Lady Mary Bankes’s heroic defence of her home, Corfe Castle, in Dorset, against…