Place Name Previously Workhouse Lane, the name was changed sometime around the turn of the 19thCentury. Comes from the erroneous…
Place Name Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 – July 21, 1796) was the famed Scottish poet whose works include Auld…
Place Name The Royal Homes for the Widows and Daughters of Naval and Military Officers, also known as Queen Alexandra’s…
Place Name Originally called Albert Road. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (August 26, 1819 – December 14, 1861) was…
Place Name Caroline Esther Bemish (1795 – 1872) was the wife of William Stratford, a local landowner. It is thought…
Place Name Agricultural heritage, renamed in 1935. Named after a 94 1/4 acre field, first last out in the Anglo-Saxon…
Place Name A large brewery – featured on Nicolas Lane’s map of the area from 1636 – stood to the…
Place Name For many centuries Penge was a detached hamlet of the ancient parish of Battersea in the Brixton hundred…
Place Name Whitelands College, which formerly occupied this site and after which the Park is named, was a woman’s teaching…
Place Name Miroslaw (Mirek) Vitali, OBE (October 5, 1914 – February 19, 1992) was a physician specialising in the treatment…