Place Name James Green, Judith Filson, and Margaret Watson in The Streets of Richmond and Kew write: “A very small…
Place Name Frances Elizabeth Jocelyn (née Cowper; 1820 – March 26, 1880), Viscountess Jocelyn, was sister – or possibly half-sister…
Place Name Thought to be named after the mercurial Laurence Hyde (March 1642 – May 2, 1711), 1st Earl of…
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…