Place Name First recorded in 1294 as Derleston, derived from Dëoriäf’s tūn or farmstead, although Sheila Fairfield in The Streets…
Place Name This was originally a hamlet on the Hackney – Bethnal Green border and indeed means a boundary by…
Place Name Referencing Tottenham meaning Totta’s village which was written down as Toteham in 1086 and Totenham in 1189. The…
Place Name Directional. John Field in Place-Names of Greater London gives two possible interpretations of the name Haggerston, the first,…
Place Name Named in honour of John André (May 2, 1750 – October 2, 1780), British Army Major and head of…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. Long before development this was all agricultural land, the name of this Hackney street preserves the…
Place Name Thought to mean a watering place where animals were tethered – hence shackle and well – but it…
Place Name One of a number of roads named in the early 21stCentury to reflect the changing make-up of the…
Place Name One of several nearby roads whose names have Norfolk connections, in this case the village of Sprowston, meaning…
Place Name John Tylney, later Earl Tylney, bought Stratford and Hamfrith, part of the old West Ham Manor in 1734. It…