Place Name Agricultural heritage. First recorded in 1553 as Manfeld, this was a reference to the common land, used for…
Place Name Named after the South African city, in commemoration of the Second Boer War which ran from 1899 –…
Place Name Part of the North Circular, London’s inner ring road and named after the nearby town of Walthamstow, the…
Place Name Said to be one of only two streets in the UK to be named after an opera. It…
Place Name So-called because this was the site of the annual Whitsun Fair which was held in Bow from at…
Place Name Angela Georgina Burdett-Couttss (April 21, 1814 – December 30, 1906), 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutt, was a philanthropist who descended from…
Place Name In 1550 Edward VI passed his newly acquired manor of Stepney to Thomas, Lord Wentworth (1501 – March…
Place Name Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar (April 10, 1792 – April 16, 1875), owned property around Bow.…
Place Name In honour of Sir George Treby (1643 – 1700), a Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and…
Place Name Sometimes spelt Tibbatt’s Road but there has never been an apostrophe. Thought to have been named in 1878…