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…
Place Name The Middle English word mede, itself from Old English mæd, means meadow, and before development in the late 19thCentury…
Place Name Kimberley Road was laid out between 1904-5. It is named after the 124-day Siege – or as likely…
Place Name A popular type of street name for suburban developers was to use any pre-existing plants or features there…