Place Name Laid out in the 1890s it is named after John Smeaton (June 8, 1724 – October 28, 1792),…
Place Name Directional, this road links Wandsworth to South Wimbledon/Merton. Merton, formerly an ancient Surrey parish, is now a London…
Place Name Industrial heritage. The name recalls the Wandsworth Flock Company, described in a Post Office directory of 1870 as…
Place Name Literal, it is the hill on the eastern bank of the River Wandle, today it is now part…
Place Name Industrial heritage. Despite its unpromising boggy ground this small corner of Wandsworth sitting at the mouth of the…
Place Name Stanford’s map of 1864 clearly shows how marshy and wet the Wandle Delta used to be. North of…
Place Name This was once a quiet backwater known as Wandsworth Plain, gentile enough for royal mistress Elizabeth “Jane” Shore,…
Place Name Few street names can be quite as literal as this one with a rare double meaning. In road…
Place Name Quite literal. Named after the River Wandle that flows nearby, rising near Croydon and flowing into the Thames…
Place Name The road leading to Carshalton, this is the main road that leads between Sutton and Carshalton. The original…