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Tag: Southfields

Ambleside, SW19

27 March 2025 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Takes its name from a former property, one of a number of large country villas that were built…

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Filed under: Cumbria, Southfields, streets named after houses, Wandsworth, Wimbledon Park Estate

Queensmere Road, SW19

5 March 2025 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Originally Durham Road. In 1923 a drainage application incorporating a Plan of Proposed Layout was submitted for The…

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Filed under: Putney, Queen Victoria, Queenmere estate, Southfields, Wandsworth, West Hill

Southfields Road, SW18

15 November 2024 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Agricultural heritage. Until this area was developed ion the late 19thCentury it was farmland and, as the name…

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Filed under: Agricultural, East Putney, field name, Southfields, Wandsworth

Smeaton Road, SW18

14 November 2024 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Laid out in the 1890s it is named after John Smeaton (June 8, 1724 – October 28, 1792),…

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Filed under: industry, Putney, River Wandle, Southfields, streets named after engineers, streets named after people with a Yorkshire connection, streets named after scientists, Wandsworth

Merton Road, SW18

4 November 2024 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Directional, this road links Wandsworth to South Wimbledon/Merton. Merton, formerly an ancient Surrey parish, is now a London…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, Old English, Putney, River Wandle, Southfields, Wandsworth

Bedgebury Gardens, SW19

26 September 2024 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name A reference to the Kentish manor of Bedgebury, which was most likely suggested by the principle developer Alfred…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon street name, Kent villages, Old English, Southfields, Wandsworth

Bathgate Road, SW19

25 September 2024 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Originally called New Park Road, to distinguish it from Old Park, it was later renamed sometime in the…

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Filed under: Conservative, Merton, name change, named after councillor/council employee, Scotland, Southfields, Village, Wimbledon

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