Place Name James Henry Ellis (September 25, 1924 – November 25, 1997) was an engineer and cryptographer whose pioneering work…
Place Name At ground level it would be difficult to tell how this name came about, but take a bird’s…
Place Name Laid out over former agricultural fields this is an awkward bit of land that was sandwiched between the…
Place Name James Macrae Aitken (October 27, 1908 – December 3, 1983) was a Scottish chess master who represented Great…
Place Name Currie Hill Close was laid out in 1956 on the site of a house called Curriehill, built in…
Place Name Edward Penner was a (now obscure) churchwarden of St Mary’s Church, Wimbledon, in 1803, according to the Wandsworth…
Place Name Lacock Abbey, in Wiltshire, was founded in 1232 by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, as a nunnery for Augustinian…
Place Name Unsurprisingly, this was laid out over a former coach house. It was originally the coach house to Atherton…
Place Name Hugh or Hubert de Burgh (sometime around 1170 – 1243) took sanctuary in Merton Priory, having incurred the…
Place Name Recalls the name of the old manor of Shroffold, that was first recorded in the 13thCentury as Shrafolt…