Place Name Named after the source of the New River, the brainchild of Sir Hugh Myddelton, the Welsh cloth-maker, entrepreneur, mine-owner,…
Place Name A medieval path, first referenced in 1602, through the Bishop of Ely’s gardens, which were famed for their…
Place Name The name Charterhouse comes from an Anglicisation of Chartreuse, from the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the Carthusians…
Place Name This was laid out over the grounds of Hatton House when it was knocked down in 1659 and…
Place Name The first reference was at the dawn of the 13thCentury when Solande was recorded, in the preceding decades…
Place Name Ports today are linked to the sea and air which freight coming into a country have to go…
Place Name This was originally just Fetter Lane, the New being a post-Second World War addition, which used to run…
Place Name Given its proximity to Smithfield and its market you may have expected this to be a reference to…
Place Name Christopher Hatton (June 28, 1605 – July 4, 1670), was created Baron Hatton of Kirby in Northamptonshire in…
Place Name Thought to be from a stream in the hollow in this case the River Fleet which used…