Place Name A church has stood in Battersea since as early as AD800. Indeed the church lasted throughout the Middle…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. Today’s name was featured in 1718 referencing a local field which was first mentioned as le…
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 When wealthy market gardener Henry Juer died in 1878 he left his fortune and the family’s 16 acres…
Place Name Remembers Henry Juer (February 6, 1807 – November 30, 1878), a market gardener, who held some 16 acres…
Place Name John Bridgeford Maxwell Coppock (1910 – April 4,1981) was a lecturer and research chemist, who taught chemistry and…
Place Name Henry Boutflower Verdon (December 8, 1846 – October 10, 1879) was to be the first vicar of the…
Place Name Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (September 16, 1678 – December 12, 1751) was a politician and political philosopher…
Place Name Named after General Charles George Gordon’s mission in Sudan to evacuate Egyptians in 1883. Sudan was under Egyptian rule…