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Tag: Battersea

Battersea Church Road, SW11

December 3, 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name A church has stood in Battersea since as early as AD800. Indeed the church lasted throughout the Middle…

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Filed under: Battersea, St Mary's Park, street named after a church, Surrey, Wandsworth

Battersea Rise, SW11

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Place Name Agricultural heritage. Today’s name was featured in 1718 referencing a local field which was first mentioned as le…

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Filed under: Agricultural, Battersea, field name, Lavender, Surrey, Wandsworth

Battersea High Street, SW11

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Place Name Originally plain High Street. The name Battersea was first mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon charters of AD693 as Badrices…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, Battersea, name change, St Mary's, Surrey, Wandsworth

Battersea Park Road, SW11

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Place Name Originally called Battersea Road, the western section of this thoroughfare was at one time called Lower Wandsworth Road…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, Battersea, Battersea Park, name change, Surrey, Wandsworth

Worfield Street, SW11

August 15, 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name When wealthy market gardener Henry Juer died in 1878 he left his fortune and the family’s 16 acres…

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Filed under: Battersea, Battersea Park, market garden, streets with a Shropshire connection, victorian, Wandsworth

Juer Street, SW11

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Place Name Remembers Henry Juer (February 6, 1807 – November 30, 1878), a market gardener, who held some 16 acres…

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Filed under: Battersea, Battersea Park, market garden, streets named after philanthropists, victorian, Wandsworth

Coppock Close, SW11

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Place Name John Bridgeford Maxwell Coppock (1910 – April 4,1981) was a lecturer and research chemist, who taught chemistry and…

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Filed under: Battersea, Falconbrook, Kambala Estate, streets named after scientists, Wandsworth

Boutflower Road, SW11

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Place Name Henry Boutflower Verdon (December 8, 1846 – October 10, 1879) was to be the first vicar of the…

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Filed under: Battersea, Church of England, Lavender, streets named after Cambridge graduates, Wandsworth

Bolingbroke Grove, SW11

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Place Name Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (September 16, 1678 – December 12, 1751) was a politician and political philosopher…

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Filed under: Battersea, Clapham Junction, Lavender, Northcote, streets named after Tories, Wandsworth

Berber Road, SW11

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Place Name Named after General Charles George Gordon’s mission in Sudan to evacuate Egyptians in 1883. Sudan was under Egyptian rule…

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Filed under: Battersea, Clapham, Egypt, Empire, General Gordon, Northcote, streets named after an African connection, streets named after Empire, Sudan, Wandsworth

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