Place Name This is not a reference to ancient Norse ownership, as the name might imply. Rather, it is a…
Place Name This was once the main route out of the City to Oxford and it was here that travellers…
Place Name Previously called Basing Place when it was developed in 1936 this is a lonely reminder of the old…
Place Name Originally Mount Pleasant, changed during one of the regular clean ups of London’s street names to avoid confusion…
Place Name This was originally Batters Lane, sometime around 1735. Until 1791 this was only a narrow passage leading from…
Place Name Friern comes from the Middle English word freren meaning of the brothers and is a reference to the…
Place Name Previously called South End Lane or South End Road. Tradition claims it is a corruption of the name…
Place Name Tradition claims it is a corruption of the name St Ebba who founded a monastery of which she became…
Place Name The local area King’s Wood does not get its name from any royal connection but rather a local…