Place Name One of a small cluster of roads, on the former Coppice Estate, named after trees. Before development this…
Place Name Probably named after the same Anglo-Saxon root as Tothill, in Westminster, which comes from tote hill meaning a…
Place Name Named, unsurprisingly, after a nearby former gravel pit, the stones of which were used to make the new…
Place Name Previously called Slough Lane after one of the farms that it led to. Its present name comes from…
Place Name Built between 1933 and 1937 the name is said to come from a corrupted combination of the developers…
Place Name Named after the seat of the Norman family. Their association with Bromley Common began in 1755 when James…
Place Name General Sir Robert Cornelis Napier (December 6, 1810 – January 14, 1890) also known as Lord Napier of Magdala…
Place Name Keston was first recorded as Cystanings mearc in AD862, although there is little agreement among writers as to…
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…