Place Name Commemorates Phillis Hindrey who in 1794 left £100 in stocks to be invested for the repair of tombs, with…
Place Name Industrial heritage. This road once led to the Lea Valley bleaching and dying works that had been owned…
Place Name In January 1916, less than two years into World War One, the British Government introduced conscription into the…
Place Name Like Clapham (village on a hill or slope), Clapton means a farm on a hill, in this case…
Place Name Named after North Fields, so called because this was land to the north of the water mill that…
Place Name Named after the bridge that crosses the River Lea. The name itself has Celtic origins and is thought…
Place Name Named after the Battle of Colenso which was fought between British and Boer forces in Natal, South Africa on…
Place Name Thought to be named after a man called Taverner who farmed pigs and fruit here in the mid-17thCentury.…
Place Name Named after Levi Parsons Merriam, an American investor in The British Xylonite Company, later BX Plastics, established by…
Place Name This remembers the former Cork Manufacturing Co Ltd, the area’s last cork mill, which processed the wood imported from…