Place Name While development had rapidly covered over the market gardens to the north of Lower Mortlake Road, across the…
Place Name Like West Park Avenue this road was laid out over the grounds of an old manor house, West…
Place Name Like Aynscombe Lane (which was swallowed up by the brewery) this is named after the Aynscombe family who lived…
Place Name West Hall is at least as old as Kew. Originally part of the extensive manor of Mortlake it…
Place Name Given its position running from town to the River Thames the name should come as no surprise. There’s…
Place Name Part of the Twiggets area development of Kew Green after the 1823 Enclosure Act had allocated the land…
Place Name Horatio (better known as Horace) Walpole (September 24, 1717 – March 2, 1797) the 4th Earl of Orford, was…
Place Name There are three contenders for this road’s name – but they were all related. The first was the…
Place Name So named after its proximity to The Vineyard. This runs alongside the old burial ground which was consecrated…
Place Name H M Cundall in Bygone Richmond baldly states: “Both in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries fruit was largely…