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…
Place Name Originally called Cutthrough Lane as seen by the Ordnance Survey maps of 1874, presumably because it cut through…
Place Name Called Ellison Road when first laid out in the late 19thCentury, it originally ran from Natal Road (then…
Place Name Originally Worple Road, as shown on Rocque’s Map of 1741 – 1745, this was literally a track through…
Place Name Originally called Obligation Road, meaning a road which was obliged to stay open for public use and maintained…
Place Name Originally called New Park Road, to distinguish it from Old Park, it was later renamed sometime in the…
Place Name Originally Alfred Street. It was renamed in 1937 as part of the London County Council’s periodic clean up…
Place Name Although not featured on any Ordnance Survey map this was originally Brickfield Lane, a clue to its industrial…
Place Name Originally plain Bedfords Road it runs to the south of Bedfords Park. There have been several reasons put…