Place Name Sir John Houblon (March 13, 1632 – January 10, 1712) was the first Governor of the Bank of England…
Place Name As with Branstone Road and Lichfield Road, this remembers one of the Selwyn family’s former estates. In this…
Place Name A relatively late redevelopment, this small square, off Hill Rise, wasn’t opened until 1978. It is named after…
Place Name Like Hill Rise, which this road leads onto the name is literal, the road leading to the hill. James…
Place Name Unsurprisingly, this denotes the point where the hill starts, since intrinsic features of a road generate appropriate names.…
Place Name Surprisingly, the park being referred to here is not the more obvious, to modern eyes, Kew Gardens but…
Place Name Surprisingly, the park being referred to here is not the more obvious, to modern eyes, Kew Gardens but…
Place Name Originally Hermitage Road, when it was first named in 1860. It took its present name in 1930. The…
Place Name John Haverfield (1705 – October 1784) was the chief gardener of the royal gardens at Richmond and Kew to…
Place Name William Page Wood (November 29, 1801 – July 10, 1881), 1st Baron Hatherley, was a lawyer and statesman who…