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Brooking Road, E7

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Place Name In honour of footballer Sir Trevor Brooking, former West Ham United star who made 47 appearances for England. Brooking,…

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Curwen Avenue, E7

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Place Name In honour of John Curwen (1816 – 1880) or his son John Spencer Curwen (1847 – 1916). John…

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Plashet Road, E7

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Place Name Directional. First written down as Placet in 1578 and Plashett by 1805, it comes from one of two…

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Osborne Road, E7

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Place Name This, like all the streets on the Woodgrange Estate, is named after royal residences. Osborne House on the…

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Sherrard Road, E7

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Place Name A corruption of Sherard House, in south-east London. It was the former property of Dr James Sherard (November…

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Odessa Road, E7

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Place Name The Ukrainian Black Sea port city, which had been part of the Imperial Russian Empire, was an early…

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Flanders Road, E6

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Place Name This former footpath was named in commemoration of the World War One battleground in Belgium, leading as it…

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Heigham Road, E6

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Place Name Remembering the former Lords of the Manor of East Ham the Heighams, the first being William Heigham who…

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Bendish Road, E6

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Place Name Named after the Bendish family, Lords of the Manor of East Ham from 1650. Robert Bendish’s wife, Mary,…

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Burges Road, E6

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Place Name Named in honour of local landowner and Lord of the Manor Colonel Ynyr Henry Burges, and owner of…

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