Place Name To mark the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887, workmen dammed a stream running through meadowland near…
Place Name As with Camp Road this was named from the erroneous 19thCentury notion that Julius Caesar had camped near…
Place Name Previously Workhouse Lane, the name was changed sometime around the turn of the 19thCentury. Comes from the erroneous…
Place Name An admittedly oblique reference to the nearby Caesar’s Camp on Wimbledon Common. Elizabethan antiquary William Camden referenced the…
Place name Previously Suffolk Street West and, more recently, Battle Bridge Road. As names go few evoke a sense of…
Place name Fortuna is the goddess of fortune and the personification of luck in Roman religion. It is one of a…
Place name Originally Ponder Street. A centurion was the principal professional officer in the armies of ancient Rome and its empire,…
Place name Vulcan is the Roman and Greek god of fire and the forge, who it was said invented smithing…
Place name Originally Barbara Road, the name was changed when the Westbourne estate was developed in 1978. Atlas is a…
Place name Originally Lesly Road, the name was changed when the Westbourne estate was developed in 1976. It was named…