Place Name Directional the road leading from Shoreditch to Bethnal Green. The eastern end of the route has been in…
Place Name Descriptive, this was a small estate originally owned by George Crispin which was developed by 1873. Most of…
Place Name This is thought to be the oldest inhabited part of Hampstead town, on the southern slopes of the…
Place Name Directional, linking Hampstead with Hampstead Garden Suburb up until it was developed in the first decades of the…
Place Name Descriptive. Described in 1725 as having been, 60 years previously, a “high hill and a sandpit so that…
Place Name Originally called Caen Wood Lane. This was an early medieval track dividing Hampstead Manor from the Bishop of…
Place Name Originally The Grove. This road takes its name from the small woodland, described in the manorial rolls for…
Place Name Directional, the main road leading from Uxbridge to Hillingdon. The name Hillingdon itself is Old English is thought…
Place Name Descriptive. Hillingdon Hill is 134m (440ft) high and overlooks the Colne valley. The name Hillingdon itself is Old…
Place Name Takes its name from its slightly elevated view over the town of Pinner. The name Pinner was first…