Place Name Edward Penner was a (now obscure) churchwarden of St Mary’s Church, Wimbledon, in 1803, according to the Wandsworth…
Place Name Originally Wimbledon Lane – this has in fact undergone many name changes in its time. Neil Ransome, in…
Place Name Originally a continuation of Church Lane. This is one of the oldest streets in the area, leading to…
Place Name Originally this was just a continuation of Merton Lane (later Western Road), and later was plain Church Road.…
Place Name Takes its name, unsurprisingly, from the church of the same name, to serve the growing population of north…
Place Name Laid out over land belonging to Worcester Cathedral. In 1546 Henry VIII gave the right to appoint Wimbledon’s…
Place Name Lord Alwyne Compton (July 18, 1825 – April 4, 1906) was an Anglican bishop who as Dean of…
Place Name This road, which was only developed in the final years of the 19thCentury, as the town’s population expanded…
Place Name Henry William Haygarth (1821 – December 31, 1902) was the “kindly, open and sincere” long-serving vicar of Wimbledon,…
Place Name Originally St John’s Road. The name changed shortly after the Second World War. The Polish Church of St…