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…
Place Name Remembers the former name for this area of Hounslow. Gillian Morris in the History of Spring Grove explains:…
Place Name Takes its name from the affluent Bristol suburb of Clifton. William Elliott Oliver, a solicitor, inherited a sizeable…
Place Name Clement Peache (1747 – October 23, 1815) was the great-grandfather of the James Courthope Peache junior – who…
Place Name Originally Wimbledon Lane – this has in fact undergone many name changes in its time. Neil Ransome, in…