Place name The church of St Bride or St Bridget in Fleet Street has the remains of an ancient spring…
Place Name Like its near neighbour Wormwood Street, this is named after the wild flowers that grew in the wasteland…
Place Name Originally Bowling Alley or Bowling Street. Sir Richard Tufton (1585 – October 4, 1631), who lived in Tothill…
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…