Place Name Peter of Abingdon, presumably a native of Abingdon in Oxfordshire, was the first Warden of Merton College, Oxford,…
Place Name The former Twyford Abbey was not a religious house, but the name of a Gothic property built in…
Place Name Directional the road that passes by Twyford Abbey. The former Twyford Abbey was not a religious house, but…
Place Name Lesnes Abbey was founded in 1178 by Richard de Luci the Chief Justiciar of England and first Canon…
Place Name Named after the former Twyford Abbey, which was not in fact a religious house, but the name of…
Place Name Actaeon was a famous hero in ancient mythology. The myth of Diana and Actaeon, found in Ovid’s Metamorphoses…
Place Name Bourchier Cleve (1715 – 1760) was a London pewter manufacturer and writer on finance who in 1755 commissioned…
Place Name Charles Robert Darwin (February 12, 1809 – April 19, 1882), was the naturalist, geologist and biologist, famous for…
Place Name Directional, leading to Barking Abbey, which had been in ruins for around 400 years by the time this…
Place Name Originally Back Brook Street, it became Davies Mews sometime before 1792. Mary Davies (also spelt Davis) (January 1665…