Place Name The area is named after the local church which is dedicated to St Pancras. Pancras was a Roman citizen…
Place name This was originally Paradise Street (Paradise is frequently used for roads on the south side of churches) from…
Place Name Like Clapham (village on a hill or slope), Clapton means a farm on a hill, in this case…
Place Name Like Clapham (village on a hill or slope), Clapton means a farm on a hill, in this case…
Place Name Blendon Hall was one of Bexleyheath’s largest estates built in 1763, that stood near here. The Bladindon family…
Place Name Recalling the Abbots of Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk who were given a property here sometime before 1160,…
Place Name Elizabeth Fry (May 21, 1780 – October 21 1845), was a prison reformer, Quaker and philanthropist. She was born…
Place name Charles James Dingley, who proposed a link road to reduce journey times between the new Pentonville Road and…
Place Name Charterhouse comes from an Anglicisation of Chartreuse, from the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the Carthusians in Burgundy,…
Place Name Charterhouse comes from an Anglicisation of Chartreuse, from the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the Carthusians in Burgundy,…