Place Name As with Norman Road it is a reference to the founder of Merton Abbey, variously known as Gilbert…
Place Name As with Gilbert Road it is a reference to the founder of Merton Abbey, variously known as Gilbert…
Place Name While the hamlet or village of Tooting stretches back to Saxon times, first recorded in AD675, the addition…
Place Name Richard de Gravenel was a landowner who held a large swathe of Lower or South Tooting around 1215,…
Place Name Number 7 Barnsbury Grove is where, in 1866, a Sandemanian Chapel (Pococks Fields) stood, so there may have…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. Today, there isn’t much of a park to see and yet, there were several references to…
Place Name Originally Mount Pleasant, changed during one of the regular clean ups of London’s street names to avoid confusion…
Place Name This square began to be laid out on the site of the former Reed Moat Field, a medieval…
Place Name This was originally Batters Lane, sometime around 1735. Until 1791 this was only a narrow passage leading from…
Place Name Like so many big landowners of the medieval period, first and surnames have been passed down the ages…