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Tag: streets named after a Roman connection

Ravensbourne Park, SE6

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Place Name Ravensbourne Park Gardens, were originally a private green for the occupiers of Ravensbourne Park Estate which began to be…

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Filed under: Lewisham, river, River Ravensbourne, Rushey Green, streets named after a Roman connection, streets named after rivers

Ravensbourne Place, SE13

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Place Name A reference to the nearby river which was first recorded as Randesbourne in 1360. How the river got…

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Filed under: Brockley, Lewisham, river, River Ravensbourne, streets named after a Roman connection, streets named after rivers

Ravensbourne Road, SE6

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Place Name A reference to the nearby river which was first recorded as Randesbourne in 1360. How the river got…

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Filed under: Crofton Park, Forest Hill, Lewisham, river, River Ravensbourne, streets named after a Roman connection, streets named after rivers

Ravensbourne Avenue, BR2

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Place Name A reference to the nearby river which was first recorded as Randesbourne in 1360. How the river got…

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Filed under: Bromley, river, River Ravensbourne, Shortlands and Park Langley, streets named after a Roman connection, streets named after rivers

Ravensbourne Avenue, BR3

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Place Name A reference to the nearby river which was first recorded as Randesbourne in 1360. How the river got…

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Filed under: Bromley, Bromley Town, river, River Ravensbourne, streets named after a Roman connection, streets named after rivers

St Helen’s Place, EC3A

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Place Name The adjacent St Helen’s Church, Bishopsgate is all that remains of the former priory that stood nearby. The…

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Filed under: City of London, Dissolution of the monasteries, Lime Street, religion, streets named after a Roman connection, streets named after religious houses, streets named after women, women

Actaeon Mews, SE18

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Place Name Actaeon was a famous hero in ancient mythology. The myth of Diana and Actaeon, found in Ovid’s Metamorphoses…

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Filed under: Greek myth, Greenwich, streets named after a Roman connection, Woolwich, Woolwich Common

Fortuna Close, N7

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Place name Fortuna is the goddess of fortune and the personification of luck in Roman religion. It is one of a…

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Filed under: fake history, Islington, Laycock, streets named after a Roman connection, streets named after gods

Centurion Close, N7

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Place name Originally Ponder Street. A centurion was the principal professional officer in the armies of ancient Rome and its empire,…

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Filed under: fake history, Islington, Laycock, military, name change, streets named after a Roman connection

Vulcan Way, N7

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Place name Vulcan is the Roman and Greek god of fire and the forge, who it was said invented smithing…

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Filed under: fake history, Greek myth, Islington, streets named after a Roman connection, streets named after gods

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