Place Name From the mid-18thCentury until the early 1930s a large house stood on the south-west side of what is…
Place Name Previously called Edgecombe Road as part of an alphabetical sequence – Aylmer Road, Barfield Road, Carlton Road, Dacre…
Place Name One of six roads that when put together reveal a secret in their names. This estate was developed on…
Place Name Ephraim Potter who along with his business partner William Moore were physic gardeners specialising in the cultivation of…
Place Name Descriptive archaic. The name Gutteridge is found in several places around the country appearing around the time of…
Place Name Meaning lake wood. W H Wedlock Ltd, the builders named many roads after Lake District locations. The firm…
Place Name One of a cluster of streets named after Kent villages. Nurstead comes from the Old English hnutu meaning…
Place Name Daniel Defoe (1660 – April 24, 1731) the celebrated author of Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719 and regarded…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. A 16thCentury name meaning pear tree valley, it had previously been called Greenforde Parva or Little…
Place Name Thought to have been named after a local resident of a nearby hamlet. It was first mentioned in…