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Bankside, SE1

22 November 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name The name itself is self evident, as this street is literally beside the River Thames, it was so-called…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Borough and Bankside, industry, River Thames, Southwark

Bankhurst Road, SE6

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Place Name This remembers the old manor name of Bankhurst, so called after the Banquel family (the name was variously…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Crofton Park, Lewisham, Medieval

Bandon Rise, SM6

21 November 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Agricultural heritage. Recalls the name of the hamlet of Bandonhill but the name goes back much further even…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Agricultural, Medieval, streets named after food, Sutton, Wallington, Wallington South

Balls Pond Road, N1

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Place Name Takes its name from a publican, one John Ball, who around the middle of the 17thCentury kept an…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: De Beauvoir, Hackney, Islington, Mildmay, streets named after publicans

Ballards Rise, CR2

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Place Name Agricultural heritage. Selsdon Wood was once part of the Selsdon Park estate, owned by the Archbishops of Canterbury…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Agricultural, agriculture, Croydon, Croydon South, Medieval, South Croydon, Village Selsdon and Addington

Ballards Way, CR2

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Place Name Agricultural heritage. Selsdon Wood was once part of the Selsdon Park estate, owned by the Archbishops of Canterbury…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Agricultural, agriculture, Croydon, Croydon South, Medieval, South Croydon, Village Selsdon and Addington

Ballards Farm Road, CR2

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Place Name Agricultural heritage. Selsdon Wood was once part of the Selsdon Park estate, owned by the Archbishops of Canterbury…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Agricultural, agriculture, Croydon, Medieval, Selsdon and Addington Village, South Croydon

Balham Station Road, SW12

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Place Name Requiring no leap of the imagination, this is the road that Balham Station stands on. The station was…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Balham, Railway, Tooting, Wandsworth

Balham Park Road, SW12

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Place Name Look at a modern map and this would seem to be a reference to the odd parcel of…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Tooting, Trinity, Wandsworth

Balham New Road, SW12

15 November 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name This was certainly new when it was laid out in the mid-19thCentury, running between Balham Road (today’s Balham…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Balham, Wandsworth

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