Place Name Directional, the road leading to Plaistow. The name of the area is believed to come from Sir Hugh…
Place Name Originally New Road. Named in commemoration of Admiral Nelson’s victory over the French Fleet on August 1, 1798…
Place Name Formerly the East Ham and Barking By-pass which replaced the old Beckton Road. The name Newham was established…
Place Name Named after General Charles George Gordon’s mission in Sudan to evacuate Egyptians in 1883. Sudan was under Egyptian rule…
Place Name Named in honour of George Peabody (February 18, 1795 – November 4, 1869), the American financier who is widely…
Place Name Described by John Field as being “paradoxically arranged” this is one of four streets named after directions of…
Place Name As the name implies this Boundary Road was laid out on the line of the Walthamstow/Leyton boundary. It…
Place Name Directional, the road leading from Canning Town to Barking. John Field in his book Place Names of Greater…
Place Name This residential street was laid out over the grounds of the former West Ham Bus Garage, in Greengate…
Place Name The street is named after pharmacist Luke Howard (November 28, 1772 – March 21, 1864), a manufacturing chemist called…