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,…
Place Name Named after John Langdon, who served as Bishop of Rochester from 1421 until his death in France on September…
Place Name Named in honour of William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham, (November 15, 1708 – May 11,…
Place Name Like a few of the roads in the area this is a reference to one of the ancient…