Place Name Originally part of Gunnersbury Avenue, it was renamed when the North Circular was created. Gunnersbury has its roots…
Place Name The main route leading from Acton to Gunnersbury. Gunnersbury has its roots in an old Scandinavian name. It…
Place Name Part of the North Circular. Gunnersbury Avenue has its roots in an old Scandinavian name. It is believed to…
Place Name Literal given its location next to the railway line. It was developed on land that was previously the…
Place name As with Leda Road, Swan Road is named after the protagonists in the Greek myth Leda and the…
Place Name The adjacent St Helen’s Church, Bishopsgate is all that remains of the former priory that stood nearby. The…
Place Name The local area King’s Wood does not get its name from any royal connection but rather a local…
Place Name Thomas à Kempis (born sometime around 1380 – July 25, 1471), was a 15thCentury religious writer, who studied…
Place Name An anglicised spelling of the River IJssel, a Dutch distributary of the River Rhine, that runs north through the city…
Place Name Hilversum is a city and municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It is home to the…