Place Name Named after the Carew family, former owners of Biggin Grove house in the 16th and 17thCenturies. Sir Nicholas Carew…
Place Name Named after John Manship (1726 – 1816), a businessman in the City of London and local landowner, who…
Place Name This street along with neighbouring Eighteenth Road was originally laid out as part of a much larger estate…
Place Name Named after the legendary Nottinghamshire outlaw, who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. He became…
Place Name Named in honour of the Dutch town of Hengelo which became Mitcham’s adopted town in 1946. This practice,…
Place Name One of two roads named after the seven hills of Rome, nearby Esquiline Lane is the other, possibly…
Place Name Named after the herb that began to be grown commercially around Mitcham in the mid-18thCentury. It was used…
Place Name Named after Mrs Elizabeth Taylor, a descendant of explorer Captain James Cook, who was owner of Crusoe Farm…
Place Name The avenue was named to commemorate King George VI’s coronation in 1937. It was originally unnamed.
Place Name Alluding to the village in Mitcham. Not named after the bird but in fact meaning Ralph’s manor. The…