Place Name Developed at the same time as Shipka Road, this is a reference to the Russo-Turkish War 1877 –…
Place Name Commemorating the Battle of Shipka Pass seems an unusual choice for a London street name, to say the…
Place Name The land on which this road was laid over was once owned by the dukes of Bedford. The…
Place Name The land on which this road was laid over was once owned by the dukes of Bedford. The…
Place Name Requiring no leap of the imagination, this is the road that Balham Station stands on. The station was…
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 Literal. A hill in Balham. John Field in his study Place Names of Greater London speculates that it…