Place Name Formerly the site of The Mothers’ Hospital set up by the Salvation Army. This large maternity hospital, was previously…
Place Name One of several roads in the area that are named after connections to the Powell family who were…
Place Name The Reverend Algernon George Lawley (December 15, 1857 – June 14, 1931), who held the title 5th Baron…
Place Name Named after the Duke of Clarence pub, which itself was named in honour of George III’s third son…
Place Name Named after the long-serving former vicar of Hackney Parish, the Reverend Thomas Cornwaite, who died in 1799. He…
Place Name Previously called Pratt’s Lane and before that Cobb’s Lane, but renamed Glyn Road in 1881. It was laid…
Place Name Commemorates Phillis Hindrey who in 1794 left £100 in stocks to be invested for the repair of tombs, with…
Place Name Industrial heritage. This road once led to the Lea Valley bleaching and dying works that had been owned…
Place Name In January 1916, less than two years into World War One, the British Government introduced conscription into the…
Place Name Like Clapham (village on a hill or slope), Clapton means a farm on a hill, in this case…