Place Name Named after Joachim Conrad Loddiges, originally from Germany he bought a nursery-garden here in 1771. He specialised in cultivating…
Place Name Formerly Tresham Avenue. Named after Sir Thomas Tresham (1543 – September 11, 1605) who was a prominent Catholic…
Place Name Thomas Sutton (1532 – 1611) was a lawyer perhaps most famous as the founder of Charterhouse and of…
Place Name Named after Stephen Ram who built a nonconformist chapel in Homerton in 1723. The established church could not…
Place Name Catherine Massie and her brother Henry George Massie inherieted the large Graham family estate from their aunt Catherine Graham…
Place Name Named in 1881 most likely after a corruption of Perwich, after former local estate owners. Indeed in 1664…
PLACE NAME One of a cluster of roads named after Oxfordshire towns and villages. Wolvercote is a village that is…
Place Name Named in honour of William Spurstowe, a 17thCentury vicar of Hackney and benefactor who in 1666 gave lands for the…
Place Name Named after Christopher Urswick (1448 – 1522), Rector of the Parish of Hackney from 1502 to 1522. On…
Place Name This is likely to have been inspired by the myth of how Shoreditch got its name. While historians…