Place Name Agricultural heritage. A clever name since it is both a reference to the fact that here the streets…
Place Name Takes its name from Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, celebrated on June 22, 1897 to mark the 60th anniversary…
Place Name Robert Devereux (November 10, 1565 – February 25, 1601) was a courtier, soldier, statesman and poet, who became a…
Place Name James Henry Ellis (September 25, 1924 – November 25, 1997) was an engineer and cryptographer whose pioneering work…
Place Name At ground level it would be difficult to tell how this name came about, but take a bird’s…
Place Name Laid out over former agricultural fields this is an awkward bit of land that was sandwiched between the…
Place Name James Macrae Aitken (October 27, 1908 – December 3, 1983) was a Scottish chess master who represented Great…
Place Name This is a reference to the wood of the same name three miles away – and was probably…
Place Name Directional, the main road leading from Uxbridge to Hillingdon. The name Hillingdon itself is Old English is thought…
Place Name Descriptive. Hillingdon Hill is 134m (440ft) high and overlooks the Colne valley. The name Hillingdon itself is Old…