Place Name So called because its entire length runs along what was the boundary of Streatham Parish (which included Tooting)…
Place Name Industrial heritage. In 1907 a German company formed the Tandem Smelting Syndicate, setting up close to the railway…
Place Name Takes its name from Byegrove House and Byegrove Cottage, both shown in historical maps. The former was a…
Place Name As you may expect, this is actually much older than the name would suggest. It has been a…
Place Name A reference to what was once one of the most important buildings in England, the chapter house of…
Place Name Miss Barbara Thrupp was the energetic former Mitcham Council housing manager who devoted her life to local authority…
Place Name Name change. The historic name of a field, Meophams, which lay on the north side of the road.…
Place Name Yorkshire, England’s largest historic county, is divided into three ridings (from a Viking word meaning third) – North,…
Place Name Sussex, a historic county on England’s south coast, has prehistoric roots. It was a significant Anglo-Saxon kingdom, founded…
Place Name Southampton, on England’s south coast, boasts a rich maritime history, going back to Roman times as a port…