Place Name Sophia Johnstone (1785 – 1841), the Duchess of Cannizzaro (note the spelling), was a tour de force of…
Place Name This road was built by Daniel (or possibly his father William) Hagon who named it – or perhaps…
Place Name A corrupted reference to Dunsford, a former manor, meaning a ford in the valley, in this case crossing…
Place Name Curiously while St Ann’s Crescent has retained its apostrophe throughout the decades, it has lost an e in…
Place Name Accepted Frewen (1588 – March 28, 1664), was president of Magdalen College from 1626 and Archbishop of York…
Place Name William Borradaile (10 July 1792 – February 16, 1838) vicar of Wandsworth in the 1830s, who killed himself,…