Place Name Named after the seat of the Norman family. Their association with Bromley Common began in 1755 when James…
Place Name General Sir Robert Cornelis Napier (December 6, 1810 – January 14, 1890) also known as Lord Napier of Magdala…
Place Name Keston was first recorded as Cystanings mearc in AD862, although there is little agreement among writers as to…
Place Name Named after a former landowner Colonel Jackson who bought the lease for Simpson’s Place, a large moated manor…
Place Name It has been suggested that this may have been a literal reference to hook-shaped farmland. But, it is…
Place Name Hengist, the name is Old English and means Stallion, who along with his brother Horsa (Horse), was hired…
Place Name The local area was named, like its similarly named district in Hillingdon, from the Old English word hœse…
Place Name Major-General Sir Henry Havelock (5 April 1795 – 24 November 1857), recaptured Cawnpore during the Indian Mutiny of…
Place Name The name Farnborough comes from two words used in Old English, fearn from where we get the word…
Place Name Named after Everard Hambro, a banker who from 1880 lived at Hayes Place, a former house on whose…