Place Name Spencer Perceval (November 1, 1762 – May 11, 1812) was a Tory politician who, as the only Prime…
Place Name Paynesfield House, also spelt Painesfield, was built by William Sawrey Gilpin, the landscape gardener and artist, in 1830…
Place Name Originally Back Lane took its present name in June 1914, reflecting the fact that it runs behind the…
Place Name Barnes and Mortlake had a number of malthouses. C Marshall Rose in Nineteenth Century Mortlake and East Sheen…
Place Name Originally Malthouse Alley and before that Back Lane, the current name was in use by the 1890s. Having…
Place name Henry John Temple (October 20, 1784 – October 18 1865), 3rd Viscount Palmerston, was a towering figure in…
Place Name Originally Palmers Lane. Dr Henry Smith Palmer (died 1892) was a local pathologist and surgeon, who came to…
Place Name Takes its name from the seaside town of Eastbourne (meaning the Eastern brook or stream). Like the adjacent…
Place Name Takes its name from Bexhill-on-Sea (the name comes from the Saxon, Bexelei, which means the place where the box…
Place Name Reverend Doctor William Pearson, originally from Parson’s Green, bought the Temple Grove estate from Sir Thomas Barnard in…