Place Name Directional. Taken from the hamlet of Little Ilford, which although still exists, is now better known as Manor…
Place Name The road leading to the nearby station of the same name. The conventional story has it that Manor…
Place Name This and The Warren which is nearby are thought to be literal references to the rabbits that lived…
Place Name One of a cluster of streets named after famous playwrights and poets, others include Shakespeare Crescent, Ruskin Avenue,…
Place Name This off-shoot from Shakespeare Crescent is clearly a literary joke. Anne Hathaway (1556 – August 6, 1623) being the…
Place Name Named in honour of the work of the rector of Wanstead, the astronomer James Pound, who in 1717 was…
Place Name The name of Wanstead is Anglo-Saxon. Written as Wænstede sometime around 1050, it means a settlement by a…
Place Name Named in honour of the First World War sailor boy and recipient of the Victoria Cross, who grew up…
Place Name This short close, certainly doesn’t lend itself to being a lane in the traditional sense and that is…
Place Name This street has undergone numerous name changes in the past 300 years. In 1764 it was called Harrow…