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Angell Road, SW9

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Place Name The Angell family owned estates around Lambeth from the late 17thCentury after William Angell, originally from Crowhurst in…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Brixton North, Coldharbour, Lambeth, streets named after developers

Anerley Road, SE20

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Place Name The name itself means the lonely place and comes from some Scottish and Northern dialects. It was the…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Bromley, Crystal Palace and Anerley, Lewisham, Scotland

Anerley Grove, SE19

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Place Name Originally New Road. The name itself means the lonely place and comes from some Scottish and Northern dialects.…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Bromley, Crystal Palace and Anerley, Lewisham, name change, Scotland

Anerley Park, SE20

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Place Name Runs along the southern boundary of Crystal Palace Park. The name itself means the lonely place and comes…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Bromley, Crystal Palace and Anerley, Lewisham, Scotland

Anerley Park Road, SE20

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Place Name Leading to the Anerley entrance of Crystal Palace Park. The name itself means the lonely place and comes…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Bromley, Crystal Palace and Anerley, Lewisham, Scotland

Anerley Hill, SE19

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Place Name Originally part of Anerley Road. The name itself means the lonely place and comes from some Scottish and…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Bromley, Crystal Palace and Anerley, Lewisham, name change, Scotland, streets named after the landscape

Avro Way, SM6

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Place Name Avro Aircraft was a British aircraft manufacturer founded in 1910 by Alliott Verdon Roe – AVRo – in…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Croydon Airport, former airfields, South Beddington and Roundshaw, streets named after a connection to aircraft, Sutton

Anerley Station Road, SE20

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Place Name Originally plain Station Road. The name itself means the lonely place and comes from some Scottish and Northern…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Bromley, name change, Penge and Cator, Railway

America Street, SE1

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Place Name This was still agricultural land when John Rocque was drawing his 1746 map of London, although development was…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: America, Borough and Bankside, Southwark, streets with a North American connection

Alma Place, NW10

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Place Name Named the first battle of the Crimean War, in which Britain and France joined Turkey to block Tsarist…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensal Green, Kensal Rise, Kensington and Chelsea, streets named after battle sites, streets named after places in Ukraine, streets named after rivers, victorian

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