Place Name Tangley is a small, village in the northwest of Hampshire. The name itself is Anglo Saxon and is…
Place Name Originally St John’s Road. The name changed shortly after the Second World War. The Polish Church of St…
Place Name Originally called The Grove. Like St Ann’s Crescent, which was, confusingly, called St Anne’s Hill, it is named…
Place Name Curiously while St Ann’s Crescent has retained its apostrophe throughout the decades, it has lost an e in…
Place Name Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909) was one of the bad boys of poetry…
Place Name Agricultural. Until the 1980s this was a former industrial site with both gas works and a coal depot,…
Place Name Laid out in the 1890s it is named after John Smeaton (June 8, 1724 – October 28, 1792),…
Place Name Compton and Shawford is a civil parish in the City of Winchester, Hampshire. The name Compton comes from…
Place Name Sherfield, often referred to as Sherfield-on-Loddon, is a village in north Hampshire. The name originates from the Old…
Place Name Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (November 9, 1880 – February 8, 1960) was an architect best known for his…