Place Name Named after the former Twyford Abbey, which was not in fact a religious house, but the name of…
Place Name An area much redeveloped throughout the 20thCentury. First laid out and occupied between 1990 and 2001, this is part…
Place Name Mentioned in 1708 as very small but pleasant and with good buildings, it was named after nearby Billiter…
Place Name Before 1936 this was Mulberry Place, remembering the Mulberry Pleasure Garden which opened in 1742 in Corporation Row.…
Place Name Recalling the medieval area of Benchesham, the former name of the manor that covered modern day Norbury and…
Place Name In 1285 it was referred to as Bechestrete and a few years later as Bechelane in 1333. It is thought…
Place Name Brettenham Park was the country estate of Sir Thomas Courtenay Theydon Warner who developed land on his Walthamstow estate…
PLACE NAME So called after the embankment that was built to hold back the black river, the Thames. The wall…
Place Name Named after the powerful Basing family who were prominent in the City at the beginning of the 13thCentury.…
PLACE NAME Named after the Dukes of Bedford, on whose land the garden was built between 1775 and 1780. The…