Place Name Like nearby Claybury it has been suggested that the name is taken from the local soil, clay, in…
Place Name Like nearby Claybury it has been suggested that the name is taken from the local soil, clay, in…
Place name Thomas Braithwaite was an alderman of Essex County Council who served as Mayor of the Municipal Borough of…
Place Name Brocket in Late Middle English denoted any red deer stage in its second year, with straight antlers. It was…
Place Name In his book A Potted History of Ilford, Norman Gunby offers several potential reasons for how the ancient…
Place Name In his book A Potted History of Ilford, Norman Gunby offers several potential reasons for how the ancient…
Place Name In his book A Potted History of Ilford, Norman Gunby offers several potential reasons for how the ancient…
Place Name A reference to Bloomsbury landowners, the Russell family, who from the early 17thCentury, were also titled Barons of…
Place Name This street, like many others in the surrounding area, owes its name to the medieval Hainault Forest, which…
PLACE NAME In 1235, a woman called Maud in the Lane gave her name to a tenement called Lanes, which…
Place Name A burrow is a den used by rabbits, foxes and the like. A number of streets in the…