Place Name This was once the main route out of the City to Oxford and it was here that travellers…
Place Name This is a reference to the wood of the same name three miles away – and was probably…
Place name Previously Suffolk Street West and, more recently, Battle Bridge Road. As names go few evoke a sense of…
Place Name A church has stood in Battersea since as early as AD800. Indeed the church lasted throughout the Middle…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. Today’s name was featured in 1718 referencing a local field which was first mentioned as le…
Place Name Originally plain High Street. The name Battersea was first mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon charters of AD693 as Badrices…
Place Name Originally called Battersea Road, the western section of this thoroughfare was at one time called Lower Wandsworth Road…
Place Name For a street that started as an access road, across farmland to a varnish maker and floorcloth manufacturer…
Place Name This road connected Hayes, via Baston Farm to Keston, across Hayes Common. Although a John de Bastane was…
Place Name Although a John de Bastane was recorded living here in the tax roll for Hayes in 1301, it…