Place Name The name Acton (from the Old English Actun) was first found in documents of the late 12thCentury and means an…
Place Name The road leading to Acton Green. The name Acton (from the Old English Actun) was first found in…
Place Name Named after the former Twyford Abbey, which was not in fact a religious house, but the name of…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. A 16thCentury name meaning pear tree valley, it had previously been called Greenforde Parva or Little…
Place Name Laid out on agricultural land that was formerly Greenford farm. It was developed sometime between the First and…
Place Name Ascot racecourse was founded by Queen Anne in 1711 when it hosted a race called Her Majesty’s Plate.…
Place Name An anglicised spelling of Concorde, the name and original spelling of the Anglo-French passenger aircraft, the world’s first supersonic…
Place Name Directional, the road leading from Shepherd’s Bush to Old Oak Common. First written as Eldeholt in 1380 from…