Place Name Originally called New Park Road, to distinguish it from Old Park, it was later renamed sometime in the…
Place Name Ashen Grove a small woodland of ash trees (hence the name) stood to the west of the 200…
Place Name It is named after the Berkshire town famous for its racecourse. The name of which itself from the…
Place Name For a street that started as an access road, across farmland to a varnish maker and floorcloth manufacturer…
Place Name As with the nearby Abbey Recreation Ground the name references the large Augustinian Priory of Merton which was…
Place Name Peter of Abingdon, presumably a native of Abingdon in Oxfordshire, was the first Warden of Merton College, Oxford,…
Place Name Ephraim Potter who along with his business partner William Moore were physic gardeners specialising in the cultivation of…
Place Name Named after the River Wandle that flows nearby, rising near Croydon and flowing into the Thames at Wandsworth,…
Place name One of a cluster of roads in Wimbledon that are named after former prime ministers and statesmen of…
Place Name In Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe, Friday was the shipwrecked adventurer’s servant who he saved from a band of…