Place Name Named after the former New Corporation Work House, built here in the mid-1660s, following the “Act for the…
Place Name Named after Chadwell spring in Amwell, Hertfordshire, one of the sources of the nearby New River which brought…
Place Name Remembering Catherine Griffiths (1885 – 1988), known as the last suffragette – when she died aged 103. She…
Place Name Situated on the edge of the bustling City, Clerkenwell was a favourite place of recreation in the 16thCentury.…
Place Name Like Baker’s Yard, named after Richard Baker, a carpenter from St Pancras who leased the land from a…
Place Name Named after the source of the New River, the brainchild of Sir Hugh Myddelton, the Welsh cloth-maker, entrepreneur, mine-owner,…
Place Name A medieval path, first referenced in 1602, through the Bishop of Ely’s gardens, which were famed for their…
Place Name The name Charterhouse comes from an Anglicisation of Chartreuse, from the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the Carthusians…
Place Name This was laid out over the grounds of Hatton House when it was knocked down in 1659 and…
Place Name The first reference was at the dawn of the 13thCentury when Solande was recorded, in the preceding decades…