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Balham Grove, SW12

15 November 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Hard to imagine with all the development, but at least until the mid-19thCentury this road led to an…

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

Balham High Road, SW17

13 November 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Originally plain Balham Road, this follows Stane Street, the great Roman superhighway which ran from Chichester to London.…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, streets named after a Roman connection, Tooting, Trinity, Wandsworth

Balham High Road, SW12

12 November 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Originally plain Balham Road, this follows the Roman road of Stane Street, which ran from Chichester to London.…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Balham, streets named after a Roman connection, Wandsworth

Balaclava Road, SE1

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Place Name Commemorating one of the most famous and romanticised battles in British history, the Battle of Balaclava, which took…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Bermondsey, South Bermondsey, Southwark, streets named after battle sites, streets named after places in Ukraine, streets named after the Crimean War, victorian

Baker Street, W1U

11 November 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name It is a name so familiar you might think its origins were set into the very foundations of…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Baker family, Marylebone High Street, Portman Estate, Westminster

Baber Bridge Parade, TW14

29 October 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name It remembers an Old English name, first recorded in 1268 as Babbewrth and, a few years later as…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Feltham, Feltham North, Hounslow, Middle Ages

Baber Drive, TW14

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Place Name This street was laid out between the wars. It remembers an Old English name, first recorded in 1268…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Feltham, Feltham North, Hounslow, Middle Ages

Avenue Close, TW5

26 October 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Leads off from The Avenue, which was so-named because it was the road that led to Avenue House…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Cranford, Heston and Isleworth Borough Council, Hounslow

Avenue Crescent, TW5

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Place Name Leads off from The Avenue, which was so-named because it was the road that led to Avenue House…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Cranford, Heston and Isleworth Borough Council, Hounslow

Avenue Gardens, TW5

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Place Name Leads off from The Avenue, which was so-named because it was the road that led to Avenue House…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Cranford, Heston and Isleworth Borough Council, Hounslow

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