Place Name Directional the road leading from Harrow on the Hill to Pinner. First written down as Pinnora in 1232…
Place Name The name Roxeth goes back to the Dark Ages and features in the Anglo-Saxon charter of AD845 as Et Hroces…
Place Name This refers to the high ground north of Sudbury. Named after the local area from the Middle English…
Place Name It’s unlikely that the Reverend Charles John Vaughan (August 16, 1816 – October 15, 1897) would have a…
Place Name Lady Anne Conolly Wentworth (1712 – 1797) was the granddaughter of Thomas Wentworth, 3rd Earl of Strafford, and…
Place Name Originally named Western Way when it was laid out in 1932 this New Barnet road was meant to…
Place Name Ordinarily this would suggest a meadow with a hazel tree. But, according to Doreen Willcox’s book Barnet’s History in…
Place Name Named after the licensee of the Green Man public house, Bruce Johnson, who was listed in the Post…
Place Name Nicolson Calvert (May 15, 1764 – April 13, 1841) was the Whig MP for Hertfordshire from 1826 to…
Place Name This name has been around since at least the 14thCentury. It was first recorded as Arkleyslond in 1332…