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…
Place Name This does not commemorate the untimely death of some unfortunate monarch in Ruislip, as the name might imply.…
Place Name Not named after the water fowl but after a William Duck, who lived here in the 16th Century.…
PLACE NAME From medieval times until the last century, the majority of the population in Eastcote was engaged in agriculture…
PLACE NAME Thomas Cranmer (July 2, 1489 – March 21, 1556) was a leader of the English Reformation and former…