Place Name Directional, the road leading from Canning Town to Barking. John Field in his book Place Names of Greater…
Place Name The name itself is self evident, as this street is literally beside the River Thames, it was so-called…
Place Name This remembers the old manor name of Bankhurst, so called after the Banquel family (the name was variously…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. Recalls the name of the hamlet of Bandonhill but the name goes back much further even…
Place Name Takes its name from a publican, one John Ball, who around the middle of the 17thCentury kept an…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. Selsdon Wood was once part of the Selsdon Park estate, owned by the Archbishops of Canterbury…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. Selsdon Wood was once part of the Selsdon Park estate, owned by the Archbishops of Canterbury…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. Selsdon Wood was once part of the Selsdon Park estate, owned by the Archbishops of Canterbury…
Place Name Requiring no leap of the imagination, this is the road that Balham Station stands on. The station was…
Place Name Look at a modern map and this would seem to be a reference to the odd parcel of…