Place Name Number 7 Barnsbury Grove is where, in 1866, a Sandemanian Chapel (Pococks Fields) stood, so there may have…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. Today, there isn’t much of a park to see and yet, there were several references to…
Place Name Originally Mount Pleasant, changed during one of the regular clean ups of London’s street names to avoid confusion…
Place Name This square began to be laid out on the site of the former Reed Moat Field, a medieval…
Place Name This was originally Batters Lane, sometime around 1735. Until 1791 this was only a narrow passage leading from…
Place Name Like so many big landowners of the medieval period, first and surnames have been passed down the ages…
Place Name Takes its name from a publican, one John Ball, who around the middle of the 17thCentury kept an…
Place Name This road, which leads from the Great North Road into London, goes under the bridge not across it.…
Place Name Laid out around 1823 it was originally called Willow Grove and for a time Willow Terrace. By 1837…
Place Name A reference to the canons of St Bartholomew’s Church, Smithfield, who held the manor here after land in…