Place Name Originally Railway Approach. A general market was opened in 1914 on what had originally been an access road…
Place Name The main road leading from Hammersmith to Shepherd’s Bush, which takes its name from the nearby common. The…
Place Name Originally Providence Place. Takes its name from the nearby Shepherd’s Bush Common. The name goes back until at…
Place Name Taken from the plain in the Peloponnese which was sacred to the gods in ancient Greece and where…
Place Name Eugen Sandow (April 2, 1867 – October 14, 1925) was a German bodybuilder and showman from Prussia also…
Place Name Named after the local area. First mentioned in the Anglo Saxon Charter as Botewœlle as early as AD831,…
Place Name Named after the local area. First mentioned in the Anglo Saxon Charter as Botewœlle as early as AD831,…
Place Name First mentioned in the Anglo Saxon Charter as Botewœlle as early as AD831 , it is thought to…
Place Name Henry VI gave the Manor of Ruislip to King’s College, Cambridge, (originally called the College of St. Mary and…
Place Name This does not commemorate the untimely death of some unfortunate monarch in Ruislip, as the name might imply.…