Place Name Derives its name either from Cran Brook, a tributary of the Roding river which once supplied Barking Abbey…
Place Name Descriptive. Local historian David Clark says it is named after its position, literally south of Norbury Brook which…
Place Name Literal. A hill in Balham. John Field in his study Place Names of Greater London speculates that it…
Place Name Descriptive name. An avenue is usually a wide and attractive streets bordered by trees. Gillian Bebbington in London…
Place Name Part of the Grange Park Estate. A somewhat fanciful name for this road that leads up to Bush…
Place Name Bernard John Ashley (born April 2, 1935) is an award-winning author of books for children and young adults…
Place Name Apparently named after a late-17thCentury pub landlady Nan Clark, who was murdered by her lover, or possibly her…
Place Name Originally Smarts Buildings. Thought to be named after one William Smart, a carpenter who lived near here in…
Place Name More than two decades had passed since the notoriously rowdy 15-day May Fair had been closed down and…
Place Name Named after the 124-day Seige – or as likely the Relief – of Kimberley which took place between…