Place Name Named after a former landowner Colonel Jackson who bought the lease for Simpson’s Place, a large moated manor…
Place Name It has been suggested that this may have been a literal reference to hook-shaped farmland. But, it is…
Place Name Hengist, the name is Old English and means Stallion, who along with his brother Horsa (Horse), was hired…
Place Name The local area was named, like its similarly named district in Hillingdon, from the Old English word hœse…
Place Name Major-General Sir Henry Havelock (5 April 1795 – 24 November 1857), recaptured Cawnpore during the Indian Mutiny of…
Place Name The name Farnborough comes from two words used in Old English, fearn from where we get the word…
Place Name Named after Everard Hambro, a banker who from 1880 lived at Hayes Place, a former house on whose…
Place Name Named after Councillor Alfred H Dykes, who was chairman of the housing committee when the Shortlands Housing Estate…
Place Name The village of Downe was first recorded in 1296 during the reign of Edward I. It is situated…
Place Name Croydon means the valley of the crocuses. It is a throwback to the medieval crop that grew here,…