Place name Originally Albert Road and Albert Place when it was first laid out sometime around 1859. It was re-named…
Place Name Literal it leads up Crouch Hill. Originally Upper Hornsey Rise between 1853 and 1936, presumably changed as part…
Place Name Alexander Tilloch (February 28, 1759 – January 26, 1825) was a Scottish journalist and inventor who after leaving…
Place Name John Lofting (1659 – June 15, 1742), originally Jan Loftingh, was a highly inventive engineer and entrepreneur from…
Place name A legion was was the largest military unit of the Roman army, during the period of the Roman Empire…
Place Name A reference to the canons of St Bartholomew’s Church, Smithfield, who held the manor here after land in…
Place Name Originally called Pissing Alley, this was most likely a public toilet from at least Georgian times but probably…