Place Name It comes from the Old English meaning an area of disputed ownership, nän-mann literally meaning no man. The addition…
Place Name Named after the local area of Suffield Hatch, it means the south field recorded as Suthfeld. The addition…
Place Name This street name alludes to its position near Epping Forest. John Field in Place Names of Greater London…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. First recorded in 1553 as Manfeld, this was a reference to the common land, used for…
Place Name Named after the South African city, in commemoration of the Second Boer War which ran from 1899 –…
Place Name Part of the North Circular, London’s inner ring road and named after the nearby town of Walthamstow, the…
Place Name Said to be one of only two streets in the UK to be named after an opera. It…
Place Name So-called because this was the site of the annual Whitsun Fair which was held in Bow from at…
Place Name Angela Georgina Burdett-Couttss (April 21, 1814 – December 30, 1906), 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutt, was a philanthropist who descended from…
Place Name In 1550 Edward VI passed his newly acquired manor of Stepney to Thomas, Lord Wentworth (1501 – March…