Place Name Agricultural heritage. Long before development this was all agricultural land, the name of this Hackney street preserves the…
Place Name Thought to mean a watering place where animals were tethered – hence shackle and well – but it…
Place Name One of a number of roads named in the early 21stCentury to reflect the changing make-up of the…
Place Name One of several nearby roads whose names have Norfolk connections, in this case the village of Sprowston, meaning…
Place Name John Tylney, later Earl Tylney, bought Stratford and Hamfrith, part of the old West Ham Manor in 1734. It…
Place Name The Nevilles – also spelt Nevill – held the Manor of Bretts, Plaistow, from 1429. It later came into…
Place Name Named in honour of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (August 14, 1473 – May 27, 1541), who held…
Place Name A reference to Plashet Hall, home to the prison reformer and philanthropist Elizabeth Fry (May 21, 1780 – October…
Place Name In honour of Dame Vera Lynn (March 20, 1917 – June 18, 2020), the singer, from East Ham,…
Place Name Anna Neagle was the stage name of Dame Florence Marjorie Wilcox (October 20, 1904 – June 3, 1986),…