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Westerley Ware, TW9

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Place Name Agricultural heritage. This was a name of a strip of meadow land to the north of Kew Green…

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Victoria Villas, TW9

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Place Name Built on Crown Land and first mentioned in the rate books of 1870. It is named after Queen…

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Victoria Place, TW9

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Place Name Originally called Artichoke Alley or Artichoke Lane, after The Artichoke alehouse which stood here from the mid-18thCentury until…

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Taylor Avenue, TW9

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Place Name Named after a family who were lords of the manor of East Sheen and Westhall from the late…

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Parkshot, TW9

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Place Name Agricultural heritage. Shots were subdivisions of farmland, usually about a square furlong in size (roughly 200m sq). This…

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Old Palace Lane, TW9

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Place Name The naming of this street is long and complicated, only finally settling onto its present moniker in the…

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Nylands Avenue, TW9

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Place Name This street was laid out on market garden land that was inherited by an Elizabeth Taylor in 1838…

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Mortlake Road, TW9

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Place Name The road that heads to Mortlake. Originally called Mortlake Lane it was the direct route between Mortlake and…

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Lower Richmond Road, TW9

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Place Name Directional, this road leads from Mortlake to Richmond. Until 1902 the notions Black Ditch ran along the south…

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Oxford Street, W1B, W1C, W1D

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Place Name One of London’s oldest roads, once used by Anglo-Saxon armies marching westwards, it was renamed in about 1720…

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