Place Name Originally this was just a continuation of Merton Lane (later Western Road), and later was plain Church Road.…
Place Name Takes its name, unsurprisingly, from the church of the same name, to serve the growing population of north…
Place Name Originally named Station Road as it led to Merton Park Station (originally Lower Merton Junction). How it came…
Place Name Originally called Hubert Road, after Hugh or Hubert de Burgh. All Saints, South Wimbledon, was formed in 1892,…
Place Name Originally a continuation of Denmark Road, it changed to its present name sometime in the late 19thCentury as…
Place Name Previously Workhouse Lane, the name was changed sometime around the turn of the 19thCentury. Comes from the erroneous…
Place Name Agricultural heritage, renamed in 1935. Named after a 94 1/4 acre field, first last out in the Anglo-Saxon…
Place Name Name change. The historic name of a field, Meophams, which lay on the north side of the road.…
Place Name Curiously while St Ann’s Crescent has retained its apostrophe throughout the decades, it has lost an e in…
Place Name Originally called Red Lion Street, it later became part of York Road before adopting its current name. The…