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Belvedere Avenue, SW19

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Place Name Until 1588, Wimbledon was a farmers’ village, of little importance. That changed when Sir Thomas Cecil, the eldest…

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Filed under: Belvedere Estate Company, Belvedere House, Cecil family, Merton, streets named after houses, Village, Wimbledon

Belvedere Drive, SW19

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Place Name Until 1588, Wimbledon was a farmers’ village, of little importance. That changed when Sir Thomas Cecil, the eldest…

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Filed under: Belvedere Estate Company, Belvedere House, Henry Cecil, Hillside, Merton, Wimbledon

Arterberry Road, SW19

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Place Name Field Name. Once agricultural land which was part of the large Mount Ararat estate, this was among the…

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Filed under: agriculture, field name, Merton, Middle English, Mount Ararat estate, Village, Wimbledon

Lancaster Road, SW19

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Place Name The Reverend Thomas Lancaster was a village schoolmaster, who later ordained as a minister and set up a…

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Filed under: Horatio Nelson, Merton, streets named after priests, streets named after schools, teacher, Village, Wimbledon

Lancaster Place, SW19

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Place Name This is one of several roads, so named as they come off of Lancaster Road. The Reverend Thomas…

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Filed under: Merton, streets named after priests, streets named after schools, Village, Wimbledon

Lancaster Gardens, SW19

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Place Name This is one of several roads, so named as they come off of Lancaster Road. The Reverend Thomas…

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Filed under: Horatio Nelson, Merton, streets named after priests, streets named after schools, Village

Lancaster Avenue, SW19

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Place Name This is one of several roads, so named as they come off of Lancaster Road. This was was…

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Filed under: cluster, Horatio Nelson, Merton, streets named after priests, Village, Wimbledon

Kipling Drive, SW19

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Place Name Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was a journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.…

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Filed under: cluster, Merton, streets named after poets, Wandle, Wimbledon

Kingsmere Road, SW19

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Place Name To mark the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887, workmen dammed a stream running through meadowland near…

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Filed under: fake history, Putney, Wandsworth, West Hill, Wimbledon

Queensmere Road, SW19

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Place Name Originally Durham Road. In 1923 a drainage application incorporating a Plan of Proposed Layout was submitted for The…

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Filed under: Putney, Queen Victoria, Queenmere estate, Southfields, Wandsworth, West Hill

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