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Tag: Anglo-Saxon street name

Beddington Farm Road, CR0

December 6, 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Well, this was agricultural land, but the farm being referred to here didn’t grow any crops or raise…

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Filed under: agriculture, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Beddington North, Croydon, industry

Barking Road, E16

November 23, 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Directional, the road leading from Canning Town to Barking. John Field in his book Place Names of Greater…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Canning Town North, former toll road, industry, Newham, West Ham

Barking Road, E14

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Place Name Directional, the road leading from Canning Town to Barking. John Field in his book Place Names of Greater…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Canning Town, East Ham, former toll road, industry, Newham, Wall End

Balham Station Road, SW12

November 17, 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Requiring no leap of the imagination, this is the road that Balham Station stands on. The station was…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Balham, Railway, Tooting, Wandsworth

Balham Park Road, SW12

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Place Name Look at a modern map and this would seem to be a reference to the odd parcel of…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Tooting, Trinity, Wandsworth

Balham New Road, SW12

November 15, 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name This was certainly new when it was laid out in the mid-19thCentury, running between Balham Road (today’s Balham…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Balham, Wandsworth

Balham Grove, SW12

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Place Name Hard to imagine with all the development, but at least until the mid-19thCentury this road led to an…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Balham, Wandsworth

Balham High Road, SW12

November 12, 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Originally plain Balham Road, this follows the Roman road of Stane Street, which ran from Chichester to London.…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Balham, streets named after a Roman connection, Wandsworth

Aldgate High Street, EC3N

October 6, 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Originally plain High Street. The western end became Aldgate High Street and from Aldgate Station east Whitechapel High…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon street name, City of London, name change, Portsoken, streets named after a Roman connection

Aldgate, EC3N

October 5, 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Previously Aldgate Street (Alegatestrete), a name that ran all the way down to Lime Street. Aldgate is a…

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Filed under: Aldgate, Anglo-Saxon street name, City of London, name change, streets named after a Roman connection, streets named after pubs

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