Place Name The road leading to Acton Green. The name Acton (from the Old English Actun) was first found in…
Place Name Named after the local area. First mentioned in the Anglo Saxon Charter as Botewœlle as early as AD831,…
Place Name First mentioned in the Anglo Saxon Charter as Botewœlle as early as AD831 , it is thought to…
Place Name Directional, the road leading from Lee to Eltham. There are numerous suggestions about where the name Eltham comes…
Place Name Directional. Originally Yeading Road. Yeading is very early Saxon and was originally Geddingas or Geddinges, meaning the people…
Place Name Literal. A hill in Balham. John Field in his study Place Names of Greater London speculates that it…
PLace name The road leading to Carshalton, this is the main road that leads between Sutton and Carshalton. The original…
Place Name Laid out over agricultural land called Wallington Fields. Development began in the 1890s to capitalise on the nearby…
Place Name This unusual name is thought to date back to Anglo-Saxon times when a usage was a strip of…
Place Name Directional, the road leading from Canning Town to Barking. John Field in his book Place Names of Greater…