Place Name Agricultural heritage. A clever name since it is both a reference to the fact that here the streets…
Place Name Takes its name from Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, celebrated on June 22, 1897 to mark the 60th anniversary…
Place Name Robert Devereux (November 10, 1565 – February 25, 1601) was a courtier, soldier, statesman and poet, who became a…
Place Name James Henry Ellis (September 25, 1924 – November 25, 1997) was an engineer and cryptographer whose pioneering work…
Place Name At ground level it would be difficult to tell how this name came about, but take a bird’s…
Place Name Laid out over former agricultural fields this is an awkward bit of land that was sandwiched between the…
Place Name James Macrae Aitken (October 27, 1908 – December 3, 1983) was a Scottish chess master who represented Great…
Place Name Directional it is the road that runs from Northwood to Pinner. The name Pinner was first written down…
Place Name A reference to the nearby town of Northolt in Ealing. Northolt means a northern nook and was first…
Place Name Henry VI gave the Manor of Ruislip to King’s College, Cambridge, (originally called the College of St. Mary and…