Place Name Named after the Brooksby family who were Hackney landowners from 1725. Edward Brooksby bought land in the area…
Place Name Contrary to what the name suggests this was usually used as a joke name for a foul place,…
Place Name Like Clapham (village on a hill or slope), Clapton means a farm on a hill, in this case…
Place Name Remembers the former Tower Brewery that was based on Ashenden Road, it later became a sack factory. It was…
Place Name Literal as the road was laid out next to the River Lea. The name itself has Celtic origins…
Place Name Honouring Bernard Mandeville (November 15, 1670 – January 21, 1733), an Anglo-Dutch philosopher, political economist and satirist who lived…
Place Name Named after the East Sussex village of Newick, near Haywards Heath, which had connections with the Powell family, Hackney…
Place Name A reference to the local landscape, downs being hills, as this passes Hackney Downs, the former common land…
Place Name Named after the Powell family who were first recorded as Hackney landowners in 1745. In 1840 the Reverend Baden…
Place Name Formerly the site of The Mothers’ Hospital set up by the Salvation Army. This large maternity hospital, was previously…