Place Name Named after General Sir Robert Napier (1810 – 1890) who in 1868 led the British Expedition to Abyssinia to…
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Place Name Keston was first recorded as Cystanings mearc in AD862, although there is little agreement among writers as to…
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Place Name Named after a former landowner Colonel Jackson who bought the lease for Simpson’s Place, a large moated manor…
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Place Name It has been suggested that this may have been a literal reference to hook-shaped farmland. But, it is…
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Place Name Named after Hengist, who along with his brother Horsa, is said to have led the Angles, Saxons and…
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Place Name The local area was named, like its similarly named district in Hillingdon, from the Old English word hœse…
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Place Name Major-General Sir Henry Havelock (5 April 1795 – 24 November 1857), recaptured Cawnpore during the Indian Mutiny of…
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Place Name The name Farnborough comes from two words used in Old English, fearn from where we get the word…
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Place Name Named after Everard Hambro, a banker who from 1880 lived at Hayes Place, a former house on whose…
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Place Name Named after Councillor Alfred H Dykes, who was chairman of the housing committee when the Shortlands Housing Estate…
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