Place Name Daniel Ponton (died 1777) was an influential merchant of Lambeth and Battersea, whose interests included starch manufacturing and…
Place Name Lying on the southern boundary of what was, until the late 19thCentury, once marshland and reed beds. Osiers…
Place Name Magdalen College, Oxford University owned extensive land in Earlsfield, and began to develop it for housing from the…
Place Name Directional, this road links Wandsworth to South Wimbledon/Merton. Merton, formerly an ancient Surrey parish, is now a London…
Place Name Founded in 1458 by Bishop of Winchester William of Waynflete, Magdalen College is one of Oxford University’s most…
Place Name Recalling a long lost manor house in Multon, Lincolnshire, which today survives only in the name of Multon…
Place Name Somewhat confusingly, this is at the southern edge of Tooting Common. In fact, this does make sense historically…
Place Name Minstead is in the New Forest; the village’s name is thought to derive from the Old English word…
Place Name Until this area was developed it was farmland and as the name suggests this would have been a…
Place Name Norley is a farm, woodland and hamlet (named Norleywood rather than Norley) in the New Forest near the…