Place Name Named after Stratford born, Nina Layard (1853 – August 12, 1935), a botanist, antiquary, archaeologist, poet and prehistorian,…
Place Name Named after the Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, poem published in 1842, the last line of which “To…
Place Name Named in honour of Alan Mathison Turing (June 23, 1912 – June 7, 1954), the mathematician and scientist, widely…
Place Name Stratford underwent a huge amount of new development ahead of the 2012 London Olympic Games. Many new streets…
Place Name Named after Silvanus Grove, a successful quaker merchant who took ownership of the Elmhurst estate after he came to Woodford…
Place Name Named after the large Georgian property built in 1771 for Silvanus Grove, a successful Quaker merchant, to the designs of Joel…
Place Name In his book A Potted History of Ilford, Norman Gunby offers several potential reasons for how the ancient…
Place Name This was originally Asylum Road as it led to the Merchant Seamen’s Orphan Asylum, now Wanstead Hospital, which…
Place Name Named in honour of Sir Charles Herbert Bressey (January 3, 1874 – April 14, 1951), chief engineer for roads…
Place Name Named after The George public house which first opened in 1657 at the Horns Inn, as a stopping point…