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Botany Bay Lane, BR7

1 June 2019 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Often used as a popular joke name, it can also be found in Enfield, alluding as it does…

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Elmstead Lane, BR7

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Place Name Directional. The area after which this street is named was first mentioned as Elmsted in 1320, it means…

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Red Hill, BR7

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Place Name Descriptive. Named after the distinctive colour of the local soil, which in 1532 was used by John Burdde…

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Mayfield Avenue, BR6

31 May 2019 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name This takes its name from a corruption of the family name of Philip de Malevil, variously spelt Mayevil…

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Hartington Close, BR6

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Place Name Named after William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (May 8, 1720 – October 2, 1764), who was styled…

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Lych Gate Road, BR6

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Place Name This was a footpath leading to the ancient All Saints Church, which was first endowed by the Archbishop…

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Lovibonds Avenue, BR6

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Place Name Named after John Locke Lovibond, of Starts Hill Farm, who in 1886, offered All Saints, the Orpington Parish…

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Holwood Park Avenue, BR6

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Place Name Named after the nearby Holwood House estate, the former home of William Pitt the Younger, who had served…

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Gladstone Road, BR6

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Place Name One of a cluster of roads in Farnborough that are named after former Prime Ministers and radicals of…

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Chartwell Drive, BR6

28 May 2019 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Alluding to the former wartime Prime Minister William Churchill, whose home was Chartwell just outside of Westerham. He…

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