Place Name Named after the 118 day Siege – or more likely the Relief – of Ladysmith, in South Africa,…
Place Name Sir Fulke Greville, later 1st Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court (October 3, 1554 – September 30, 1628), an…
Place Name Literal. As the name suggests this was hilly marshland which would have been unsuitable for building and was…
Place Name Local benefactor Samuel Robinson (1752 – 1833) built homes for “twelve widows of protestant dissenting ministers professing Calvinistic…
Place Name Unsurprisingly this is a Huguenot name which is connected with a local family. James and Philip Cazenove were listed…
Place Name Named after the Brooksby family who were Hackney landowners from 1725. Edward Brooksby bought land in the area…
Place Name Contrary to what the name suggests this was usually used as a joke name for a foul place,…
Place Name Like Clapham (village on a hill or slope), Clapton means a farm on a hill, in this case…
Place Name Remembers the former Tower Brewery that was based on Ashenden Road, it later became a sack factory. It was…
Place Name Literal as the road was laid out next to the River Lea. The name itself has Celtic origins…