Place Name Previously called Basing Place when it was developed in 1936 this is a lonely reminder of the old…
Place Name This is an access road to Barwell Court, which was first mentioned Berewelle in 1242 from the Old…
Place Name Will street sign writers ever get a break? So often when they miss an apostrophe they get complaints…
Place Name Number 7 Barnsbury Grove is where, in 1866, a Sandemanian Chapel (Pococks Fields) stood, so there may have…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. Today, there isn’t much of a park to see and yet, there were several references to…
Place Name Originally Mount Pleasant, changed during one of the regular clean ups of London’s street names to avoid confusion…
Place Name This square began to be laid out on the site of the former Reed Moat Field, a medieval…
Place Name This was originally Batters Lane, sometime around 1735. Until 1791 this was only a narrow passage leading from…
Place Name Like so many big landowners of the medieval period, first and surnames have been passed down the ages…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. Quite literally named after a barn on a hill, it was first recorded as Barnhills in…