Place Name Directional the road from West Ruislip to the village of Ickenham. The village takes its name from the…
Place Name Directional the road from West Ruislip to the village of Ickenham. The village takes its name from the…
Place Name Running alongside the London Underground and Chiltern Railways line, this street was named after the Great Central Railway which came into…
Place Name James Edwards (1757 – January 2, 1816) bought the Manor of Harrow Rectory alias Harrow-on-the-Hill including 121 acres…
Place Name Descriptive this is named after the Ruislip Lido or Ruislip Reservoir which it overlooks. This was originally opened…
Place Name Remembering Elizabeth Langton who gave the freehold of her estate to New College, Oxford, in 1504. The widow…
Place Name William of Wykeham (1320 or 1324 – September 27, 1404) was Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor of England and,…
Place Name New College, Oxford, was given the land by Robert Sherborne, the then Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral who…
Place Name Thomas Ken (July 1637 – March 19, 1711) was the Bishop of Bath and Wells at the time…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. A worple is a common term in south east English road names as it refers to…
Place Name Running adjacent to Yeading Brook, which took its name from the very early Saxon settlement of Geddinges, meaning the…