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…
Place Name This refers to an actual gate that was on the Barnet Road at the old county boundary between…
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…