Place Name Named after the bridge that crosses the River Lea. The name itself has Celtic origins and is thought…
Place Name Named after the Battle of Colenso which was fought between British and Boer forces in Natal, South Africa on…
Place Name Thought to be named after a man called Taverner who farmed pigs and fruit here in the mid-17thCentury.…
Place Name Named after Levi Parsons Merriam, an American investor in The British Xylonite Company, later BX Plastics, established by…
Place Name This remembers the former Cork Manufacturing Co Ltd, the area’s last cork mill, which processed the wood imported from…
Place Name Previously called Jackatt Hill, it takes its present name from a John Friday, who is recorded as having property…
Place Name Named after the developers Drysdale Trust Limited, a property holding company, owned by the Allen family. The street…
Place Name Remembering Roger Ascham (c. 1515 – December 30, 1568) an English scholar who was Princess Elizabeth’s (later Queen Elizabeth…
Place Name St Egbert’s College was founded by Belgian monks, the Brothers of Mercy, sometime around 1919. The religious order…
Place Name Named after the long established village inn first referred to in 1782 – although other sources suggest it…