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Tag: Collier’s Wood

Swains Road, SW17

16 November 2024 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Agricultural. This was once a lane leading to Swain’s Farm, which was developed for housing between the wars.…

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Filed under: Agricultural, Collier's Wood, field name, Merton, Mitcham and Morden

East Gardens, SW17

7 October 2024 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name East Gardens and neighbouring West Gardens were laid out on the site of a former plant nursery around…

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Filed under: Collier's Wood, Merton, Mitcham and Morden

Daniel Close, SW17

4 October 2024 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name One of a small cluster of roads referencing Robinson Crusoe, in. this case the author Daniel Defoe (1660…

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Filed under: author, cluster, Collier's Wood, Daniel Defoe, Merton, Mitcham and Morden, Robinson Crusoe, streets named after an author, Tooting

Abingdon Close, SW19

9 October 2022 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Peter of Abingdon, presumably a native of Abingdon in Oxfordshire, was the first Warden of Merton College, Oxford,…

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Filed under: Collier's Wood, Merton, Oxford, Oxford University, Wandle, Wimbledon

Friday Road, CR4

6 June 2020 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name In Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe, Friday was the shipwrecked adventurer’s servant who he saved from a band of…

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Filed under: author, Collier's Wood, Daniel Defoe, Merton, Mitcham, Robinson Crusoe, Tooting

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