Place Name As the name suggests, it leads to Abbey Wood, which was just a small part of the extensive…
Place Name A religious house of one sort or the other existed in the area from before AD715 but is…
Place Name As with the nearby Abbey Recreation Ground the name references the large Augustinian Priory of Merton which was…
Place Name Laid out around 1823 it was originally called Willow Grove and for a time Willow Terrace. By 1837…
Place Name A reference to the canons of St Bartholomew’s Church, Smithfield, who held the manor here after land in…
Place Name A reference to the canons of St Bartholomew’s Church, Smithfield, who held the manor here after land in…
Place Name A reference to the canons of St Bartholomew’s Church, Smithfield, who held the manor here after land in…
Place Name Much redeveloped. This once formed the eastern section of the much longer Langthorne Road, from where it got…
Place Name Previously Union Road it was renamed in 1948 although it apparently had many other names Blind Lane; Irish…
Place Name This was, and remains, the main route across the former Stratford Marsh, now largely developed. The road name…