Place Name Named after Stephen Ram who built a nonconformist chapel in Homerton in 1723. The established church could not…
Place Name Catherine Massie and her brother Henry George Massie inherieted the large Graham family estate from their aunt Catherine Graham…
Place Name Named in 1881 most likely after a corruption of Perwich, after former local estate owners. Indeed in 1664…
PLACE NAME One of a cluster of roads named after Oxfordshire towns and villages. Wolvercote is a village that is…
Place Name Named in honour of William Spurstowe, a 17thCentury vicar of Hackney and benefactor who in 1666 gave lands for the…
Place Name Named after Christopher Urswick (1448 – 1522), Rector of the Parish of Hackney from 1502 to 1522. On…
Place Name This is likely to have been inspired by the myth of how Shoreditch got its name. While historians…
Place Name Named after Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London between 1550 – 1553. The Bishops of London owned the local…
Place Name Descriptive. These originally formed part of the landholding of the Priory at Clerkenwell. But some 60 acres of…
Place Name Previously called John Street. Dunn’s Cottages stood here, probably built by a builder called Dunn who was active…