Place Name Today the name Adolf, in the British mindset at least, is synonymous with Hitler, so it is hard…
Place Name Well, this was agricultural land, but the farm being referred to here didn’t grow any crops or raise…
Place Name Directional, the road leading from Canning Town to Barking. John Field in his book Place Names of Greater…
Place Name Directional, the road leading from Canning Town to Barking. John Field in his book Place Names of Greater…
Place Name Requiring no leap of the imagination, this is the road that Balham Station stands on. The station was…
Place Name Look at a modern map and this would seem to be a reference to the odd parcel of…
Place Name This was certainly new when it was laid out in the mid-19thCentury, running between Balham Road (today’s Balham…
Place Name Hard to imagine with all the development, but at least until the mid-19thCentury this road led to an…
Place Name Originally plain Balham Road, this follows the Roman road of Stane Street, which ran from Chichester to London.…
Place Name Originally plain High Street. The western end became Aldgate High Street and from Aldgate Station east Whitechapel High…