Place Name Originally Kew Foot Lane. The foot in this case is literal, distinguishing it from the main highway or…
Place Name According to Jane Baxter, Richmond Council’s Heritage manager, the name is not quite as straightforward as one might…
Place Name Originally called Worlds End on account that beyond Richmond’s town walls, it was here that Fagg Lane Gate…
Place Name Henry Venn (1725 – 1797) and his son John Venn (March 9, 1759 – July 1, 1813), were central…
Place Name Known as Night and Morning Row, apparently, because the eight cottages were put up by a workman in…
Place Name This a reminder of the River Thames flood of 1707, in which 1,000 acres of the Dagenham Levels, between…
Place Name Not to be found on any maps today, and indeed cartographers were coy about naming it even when…
Place Name Abraham Cowley (1618 – July 28, 1667), was a royalist poet and dramatist, who is said to be perhaps…
Place Name Literally the eastern part of Sheen, until it took its present name at the turn of the 16thCentury…
Place Name This follows the line of what was Church Path, running from Upper Richmond Road to St Mary’s the…