Place Name After General Charles George Gordon (January 28, 1833 – January 26, 1885) an adventurer killed in Sudan. In…
Place Name Named after Charles Richard Leech, a successful linoleum maker, who bought up large tracts of land around Blackfen…
Place Name Named in commemoration of the Battle of Ramillies, which was fought on May 23, 1706, during the War…
Place Name Ten ploughs of land around here were given to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Wulfred, by Coenwulf the King of…
Place Name Thought to be named after aviation pioneer Patrick Young Alexander (March 28, 1867 – July 7, 1943), who was…
Place Name Named after the Harman family who resided in the Crayford area in the 15th and 16thCenturies. Henry Harman…
Place Name Named after Sir John Kirkland (1796 – 1871), an army agent, providing a banking service to soldiers and…
Place Name Named after Thomas Walter Gwillim, a former Woolwich newsagent who bought land in Blackfen from money his father…
Place Name This was as the name suggests a black boggy area, the colour usually a result of peat, from…
Place Name Named after the SS Richard Montgomery, an American Liberty ship, used to carry ammunition during the World War Two.…