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Tag: Bromley

Ravensbourne Avenue, BR2

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Place Name A reference to the nearby river which was first recorded as Randesbourne in 1360. How the river got…

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Filed under: Bromley, river, River Ravensbourne, Shortlands and Park Langley, streets named after a Roman connection, streets named after rivers

Ravensbourne Avenue, BR3

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Place Name A reference to the nearby river which was first recorded as Randesbourne in 1360. How the river got…

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Filed under: Bromley, Bromley Town, river, River Ravensbourne, streets named after a Roman connection, streets named after rivers

Pickwick Way, BR7

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Place Name The Pickwick Papers was Charles Dickens’s widely successful first novel – originally told as a part work –…

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Filed under: Bromley, Charles Dickens, Chislehurst, cluster, dickens, streets named after fictional characters

Yester Drive, BR7

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Place Name This was laid out on Yester Park, a four acre plot of the much larger estate Camden Estate,…

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Filed under: Bromley, Chislehurst, names with a Celtic origin, Scotland

Yester Road, BR7

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Place Name This was laid out on Yester Park, a four acre plot of the much larger estate Camden Estate,…

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Filed under: Bromley, Chislehurst, names with a Celtic origin, Scotland

Beckenham Place Park, BR3

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Place Name Beckenham Place is the Palladian-style Grade II* Georgian mansion set in 96 hectares of stunning parkland which was…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Beckenham, Bromley, Bromley Town, Cator

Beckenham Lane, BR2

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Place Name Directional, the road leading form Bromley to Beckenham. Beckenham was first recorded in the Anglo Saxon charter as…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Bromley, Bromley Town

Beckenham Road, BR4

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Place Name Directional, the road leading from West Wickham to Beckenham. This was one of the first roads built to…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Bromley, West Wickham

Mead Way, BR4

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Place Name The Middle English word mede, itself from Old English mæd, means meadow, and before development there was indeed agricultural…

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Filed under: Agricultural, agriculture, Bromley, field name, West Wickham

Croydon Road, BR4

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Place Name Croydon means the valley of the crocuses. It is a throwback to the medieval crop that grew here,…

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Filed under: Bromley, West Wickham

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