Place Name An admittedly oblique reference to the nearby Caesar’s Camp on Wimbledon Common. Elizabethan antiquary William Camden referenced the…
Place Name A reference to the original name of Carshalton as featured in the Domesday Book of 1086, the survey…
Place Name The road leading to Carshalton, this is the main road that leads between Sutton and Carshalton. The original…
Place Name Today the name Adolf, in the British mindset at least, is synonymous with Hitler, so it is hard…
Place Name Reconfiguration of the site means that the cross element of this street is now difficult to define. However,…
Place Name Well, this was agricultural land, but the farm being referred to here didn’t grow any crops or raise…
Place Name No grove is shown on early maps, so that was likely an affection on the part of the…
Place Name Laid out over the estate of Valence House, when the Becontree Estate was built by the London County…
Place Name Originally plain High Street. The name Battersea was first mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon charters of AD693 as Badrices…
Place Name Originally called Battersea Road, the western section of this thoroughfare was at one time called Lower Wandsworth Road…