Place Name Described by John Field as being “paradoxically arranged” this is one of four streets named after directions of…
Place Name As the name implies this Boundary Road was laid out on the line of the Walthamstow/Leyton boundary. It…
Place Name Directional, the road leading from Canning Town to Barking. John Field in his book Place Names of Greater…
Place Name This residential street was laid out over the grounds of the former West Ham Bus Garage, in Greengate…
Place Name The street is named after pharmacist Luke Howard (November 28, 1772 – March 21, 1864), a manufacturing chemist called…
Place Name This is not named after an obscure Biblical character but is a corruption of Hugh de Balun’s name.…
Place Name Named after Earlham Hall, near Norwich, which was the seat of the Gurney family and now forms part…
Place Name Named after Elizabeth Beauchamp who inherited the Manor of Bretts in Plaistow sometime around 1719 from her brother, Peter Courtney,…
Place Name Directional. Both Forest Gate and Wanstead Park Station are nearby. Forest Gate opened in 1840 by Eastern Counties Railway,…
Place Name Named after the 22-acre West Ham Cemetery which was opened in 1857 and contains a large area for…