Place Name Sir Walter Raleigh (born sometime around 1553 – October 29, 1618), writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, explorer, and…
Place Name More literal than may be presumed. Originally part of the Selwyn family estate it later became grazing ground…
Place Name Arthur George Onslow (October 25, 1777 – October 24, 1870) was the long-lived 3rd Earl of Onslow and…
Place Name Harriet Mainwaring Ellerker (1760 – September 23, 1842) was the younger sister of Charlotte Ellerker, wife of George Townshend,…
Place Name A stream running on the south near Petersham was recorded here in 1332 as Suthbrok which gave the…
PLACE NAME Henry Compton (1632 – July 7, 1713), Bishop of London in the 1670s, who was also Dean of…
Place Name Probably, by connection with Old Compton Street, named after Henry Compton (1632 – July 7, 1713), Bishop of…
Place Name Henry Hobart, brother of the Earl of Buckingham, was a Justice of the Peace who in 1772 led…
Place Name Recalls the original name Herring Court which was first mentioned in 1716, not long after the site had…
Place Name One of a cluster of roads named after a connection with George III and his family. The inter-marriages…