Place Name For many centuries Penge was a detached hamlet of the ancient parish of Battersea in the Brixton hundred…
Place Name Thought to be a reference to a former lord of the manor’s Continental roots. The Wandsworth History Society,…
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 Daniel Ponton (died 1777) was an influential merchant of Lambeth and Battersea, whose interests included starch manufacturing and…
Place Name York Place, known variously as Sylverton, Bridge Court, and York House, was once the London residence of the…
Place Name Takes its name from the East Sussex village of Alfriston, which means Ælfric’s town or settlement. This is…
Place Name Originally Alfred Street. It was renamed in 1937 as part of the London County Council’s periodic clean up…
Place Name The acanthus leaf is one of the most common ornamental features to used in decorative architecture throughout history.…
Place Name A church has stood in Battersea since as early as AD800. Indeed the church lasted throughout the Middle…