Place name Lady Elizabeth Tillotson (around 1639 – 1702) was the widow of John Tillotson, the archbishop of Canterbury and…
Place Name John Tillotson (October 1630 – November 22, 1694) was the archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 until his death.…
Place name Named after the Late Iron Age settlement, the nearby Uphall Camp, an ancient earthwork between the River Roding river and…
Place name The Valentines estate, now called Valentines Park, was first mentioned in a deed dated 1665. However, there is…
Place Name The name of Wanstead is Anglo-Saxon. Written as Wænstede sometime around 1050, it means a settlement by a…
Place name Remembering Sarah Ingleby (December 22, 1823 – January 3, 1906), the last private resident of the Valentines Estate and…
Place Name Holcombe Ingleby (March 18, 1854 – August 6, 1926) was the son of the last private resident of the Valentines…
Place Name West Wood was the former (and perhaps more politically correct) name of the woodland today called Mad Bess…
Place Name A reference to the nearby town of Northwood in Ruislip. The name is literal, meaning a northern wood…
Place Name This was originally a small footpath to St Lawrence’s Church in Little Stanmore which overtime became a rural…