Place Name The Nevilles – also spelt Nevill – held the Manor of Bretts, Plaistow, from 1429. It later came into…
Place Name Named in honour of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (August 14, 1473 – May 27, 1541), who held…
Place Name A reference to Plashet Hall, home to the prison reformer and philanthropist Elizabeth Fry (May 21, 1780 – October…
Place Name In honour of Dame Vera Lynn (March 20, 1917 – June 18, 2020), the singer, from East Ham,…
Place Name Anna Neagle was the stage name of Dame Florence Marjorie Wilcox (October 20, 1904 – June 3, 1986),…
Place Name In honour of footballer Sir Trevor Brooking, former West Ham United star who made 47 appearances for England. Brooking,…
Place Name In honour of John Curwen (1816 – 1880) or his son John Spencer Curwen (1847 – 1916). John…
Place Name Directional. First written down as Placet in 1578 and Plashett by 1805, it comes from one of two…
Place Name This, like all the streets on the Woodgrange Estate, is named after royal residences. Osborne House on the…
Place Name A corruption of Sherard House, in south-east London. It was the former property of Dr James Sherard (November…