Place Name According to Sheila Fairfield in The Streets of London, this road is named after the Lefevre family of…
Place Name Named after the Knapp family who owned open pasture here. Eleanor Knapp is recorded as owning it when…
Place Name Previously called Avenue Road. Kitcat Terrace commemorates the Reverend Henry James Kitcat (born 1860), rector of St Mary’s…
Place Name Named in honour of John Huddart (1741 – 1816), of the East India Company and Trinity House, hydrographer,…
Place Name Takes its name from the local borough of Tower Hamlets, which is itself a reference to the small…
Place Name Named after the Reverend George Townsend Driffield, originally from Prescott, in Lancashire, who was the rector of the…
Place Name Named after Nellie Frances Cressall (nee Wilson) (November 23, 1882 – 1973), a suffragette, Labour activist and, in…
Place Name Named after the Battle of the Douro fought on May 12, 1809 at Oporto in Northern Portugal between…
Place Name Named after Sir Alfred William Yeo (October 13, 1863 – April 14, 1928), a self-made businessman and Liberal…
Place Name Named in honour of William Henry Guy (1890 – August 1, 1968), better known as Bill Guy, who was…