Place Name Named after Daniel Bolt MBE the deputy borough surveyor of Poplar in the 1920s. He was the son…
Place Name Named after the one-eyed giant in Homer’s Greek tale The Odyssey. The name however is influenced by a more…
Place Name So called after the embankment that was built to hold back the black river, the Thames. The wall…
Place Name Part of the Aberfeldy Village Estate, which had been bought by Hugh McIntosh (1768 – 1840), a Scottish civil engineering…
Place Name Located close to each other over the former East India Company’s Import Dock, this fragrant network of streets…
Place Name This remembers Sir John Heron (1470 – 1521) and his family who held the Aldersbrook estate for some…
Place Name Thought to be named after Joshua Stanley, vicar of West Ham from 1682 to 1690, who was a…
Place Name Originality was in short supply when developers began to name the roads around Little Ilford at the end…
Place Name Named in honour of Arabella Susan Lawrence (August 12, 1871 – October 24, 1947), a social campaigner and one…
Place Name Named after the well-connected Henry Herbert, earl of Pembroke (1538 – January 19, 1601), and one time owner…