Place Name The Middle English word mede, itself from Old English mæd, means meadow, and before development there was indeed agricultural…
Place Name Originally Providence Place. Takes its name from the nearby Shepherd’s Bush Common. The name goes back until at…
PLACE NAME From medieval times until the last century, the majority of the population in Eastcote was engaged in agriculture…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. A 16thCentury name meaning pear tree valley, it had previously been called Greenforde Parva or Little…
Place Name This unusual name is thought to date back to Anglo-Saxon times when a usage was a strip of…