Place Name Named after the Anglo-Saxon leaseholder Godwine Fot – or Godwin Foot – who held the property from before…
Place Name A misspelling of Cleve. Named after London pewter manufacturer and pamphleteer Bourchier Cleve (1715 – 1760). Sometime around…
Place Name Named after Sir Martin Vesey Holt, a banker and army agent, who lived at the manor house Mount…
Place Name After Samuel James Waring, later Lord Waring (April 19, 1860 – January 9, 1940). Born in Liverpool he…
Place Name After Ruxley Farm and the local area. Derived from the Old English words hroces leah meaning a wood where rooks…
Place name Queen Alexandra of Denmark (December 1, 1844 – November 20, 1925), was wife of King Edward VII and…
Place Name After Vickers Works which was based in Crayford. It was set up in 1884 by Hiram Maxim, inventor…
Place Name After the Wheatley family, Lords of the Manor of Erith in the 18th and 19thCenturies. The Wheatleys were a…
Place Name Named after Councillor George Stuart Mantle, who served as Mayor of Erith between AD1942 – AD1943. It was…
Place Name After Frederick Bowreman Jessett, who was appointed Erith’s first Medical Officer of Health in 1870. The street, which…