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Buntingbridge Road, IG2

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Place name It doesn’t look like much of a bridge today but before it was paved over in the early…

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Woodford Avenue, IG2

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Place Name This is the A1400 and part of the North Circular. Woodford appears in the Domesday Book of 1086…

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Ley Street, IG1

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Place Name The origins of this street name go back to at least the Middle Ages and most likely even…

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Loxford Lane, IG1

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Place Name Running adjacent to Loxford Hall. The name Loxford was used to describe this area from at least 1319.…

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Mayfair Avenue, IG1

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Place name The name was chosen by the street’s developer, William Peter Griggs (November 1, 1849 – August 11, 1920), a…

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Pretoria Road, IG1

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Place Name Named after the South African city, in commemoration of the Second Boer War which ran from 1899 –…

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Roden Street, IG1

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Place Name A corruption of the name of the 31-mile River Roding which rises near Dunmow in Essex and flows…

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Saxon Road, IG1

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PLACE NAME One of four streets named after important periods in the history of Ilford (and Britain). By the 7thCentury,…

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Thorold Road, IG1

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Place name Reverend James Edwin Thorold Rogers (March 23, 1823 – October 14, 1890) was a political economist, liberal MP,…

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Wellesley Road, IG1

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Place name Takes its name from Wellesley House, the substantial Croydon property, that was home to Jabez Spencer Balfour, property…

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