Place Name Named after Henry Martin Harvey, who was a churchwarden of St John’s the Baptist Church, Leytonstone, who lived…
Place Name Previously called Eagle Road, after a coaching inn that was here up until at least 1890, it became…
Place Name Named, along with the adjacent Harold Road, in honour of the Reverend Harold Vernon, who was the second…
Place Name Named after the West Ham Union Workhouse which was completed in 1841 and ran until 1930 when the West…
Place Name Directional. Woodford appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wdefort, having previously been recorded as Wudeford four…
Place Name Whipps Cross is a mutation of the area’s 16thCentury name, Phyppys Crosse, which was first recorded in 1517…
Place Name Named after the Leytonstone-born poet and dramatist, John Drinkwater (June 1, 1882 – March 25, 1937). This was…
Place Name Named in honour of Jenny Hammond (December 19, 1894 – 1988), a Labour Party councillor and former mayor…
Place Name A relatively new road, it was developed and named sometime in the 1990s. It comes from the artesian…
Place Name An area much redeveloped throughout the 20thCentury. This is one of a cluster of streets redeveloped by the Waltham…