Place Name For many centuries Penge was a detached hamlet of the ancient parish of Battersea in the Brixton hundred…
Place Name Whitelands College, which formerly occupied this site and after which the Park is named, was a woman’s teaching…
Place Name Miroslaw (Mirek) Vitali, OBE (October 5, 1914 – February 19, 1992) was a physician specialising in the treatment…
Place Name A reference to the Bishop of Winchester William of Waynflete, who in 1458 founded Magdalen College, one of Oxford…
Place Name Miss Barbara Thrupp was the energetic former Mitcham Council housing manager who devoted her life to local authority…
Place Name Name change. The historic name of a field, Meophams, which lay on the north side of the road.…
Place Name Yorkshire, England’s largest historic county, is divided into three ridings (from a Viking word meaning third) – North,…
Place Name Westmorland is an historic county in northwest England, famous for its landscapes, including parts of the Lake District.…
Place Name Sussex, a historic county on England’s south coast, has prehistoric roots. It was a significant Anglo-Saxon kingdom, founded…
Place Name Southampton, on England’s south coast, boasts a rich maritime history, going back to Roman times as a port…