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…
Place name Previously Suffolk Street West and, more recently, Battle Bridge Road. As names go few evoke a sense of…
Place Name Originally plain High Street. The name Battersea was first mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon charters of AD693 as Badrices…
Place Name Originally called Battersea Road, the western section of this thoroughfare was at one time called Lower Wandsworth Road…
Place Name Previously called Basing Place when it was developed in 1936 this is a lonely reminder of the old…
Place Name Originally Mount Pleasant, changed during one of the regular clean ups of London’s street names to avoid confusion…
Place Name This was originally Batters Lane, sometime around 1735. Until 1791 this was only a narrow passage leading from…