Place Name Henry VI gave the Manor of Ruislip to King’s College, Cambridge, (originally called the College of St. Mary and…
Place Name This does not commemorate the untimely death of some unfortunate monarch in Ruislip, as the name might imply.…
Place Name Not named after the water fowl but after a William Duck, who lived here in the 16th Century.…
PLACE NAME From medieval times until the last century, the majority of the population in Eastcote was engaged in agriculture…
Place Name In the first half of the 14thCentury a dispute broke out between the Abbot of Chertsey and the…
Place Name Previously named Church Alley. This was the site of the Royal Wardrobe, a property bought by Edward III…
Place Name Named by association with Knightrider Street, which used to be part of one of the big thoroughfares through…
Place Name The name Wenvoe is the Anglicised form of the Welsh name Gwenfô (thought to mean fair) that was…
Place Name Ernest Thomas Coote was the two time chairman of Bexley Urban District Council which ran holding the position in…
Place Name Bowness originally Bulnes is a town in Cumbria. The name means the headland where the bull grazes, from…