Place Name Burntwood Grange stood between Wandsworth Common and Garratt Lane for nearly a century. It was built in 1832…
Place Name Thought to be a reference to either the Broadwater family, feudal tenants of Tooting Manor, or (more likely)…
Place Name Commemorates the telegraph signal station which was set up here by the Admiralty in 1796 to convey messages…
Place Name Takes its name from Bridgford in Nottinghamshire, now known as West Bridgford. Originally a small agricultural village, its…
Place Name Breamore, is a village in the west of Hampshire, which is particularly noted for its 10thCentury church, St.…
Place Name Bowling has been popular in Putney since the early 17thCentury, the green that was laid here in 1636…
Place Name Takes its name from a suburb of Bournemouth, the name is thought to come from the Old English…
Place Name William Borradaile (10 July 1792 – February 16, 1838) vicar of Wandsworth in the 1830s, who killed himself,…
Place Name According to John W Brown in the Streatham Heritage Trail: Greyhound Lane this road was “laid out in…
Place Name Takes its name from Bordon, in the east of Hampshire, dates back only to 1863 when it was…