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…
Place Name Originally called North Road. A great wood once covered Middlesex and Hertfordshire, and until the late 11thCentury it…
Place Name Barnet Lane originally started at Totteridge Village and ended at Dollis Brook, where it continued as Totteridge Lane.…
Place Name There has been a hamlet to the east of Barnet village since around 1275 when it was recorded…
Place Name This was originally part of Ardleigh Green Road and was the route across the railway line. That changed…
Place Name Directional this is the road that leads out of Hornchurch to the hamlet. The name itself is a…