Place Name This was originally an old drovers’ track known as The Driver or Drive Lane that passed through Springpark…
Place Name Named after the Lennard family, who were Lords of the Manor and major property holders from 1579 when…
Place Name Named after the family of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, who held nearby Wickham Court…
Place Name Wickham is a Saxon word meaning a settlement on the site of an earlier Roman settlement – a…
Place Name As the name implies, this is a topographical description of where and how this street is laid out,…
Place Name Croydon means the valley of the crocuses. It is a throwback to the medieval crop that grew here,…
Place Name Named in honour of local solicitor Charles Eric Staddon, Beckenham’s wartime Town Clerk and Air Raid Precautions Controller. He…
Place Name Named in memory of Richard Lea (1747 – December 6, 1828), an early 19thCentury squire, who was a…
Place Name Originally one of the fields that made up Elm Farm on the Kent House estate, Reddons probably comes…
Place Name Named after agricultural land which formed part of the Kent House estate, plaw is a Middle English word…