Place Name Until 1588, Wimbledon was a farmers’ village, of little importance. That changed when Sir Thomas Cecil, the eldest…
Place Name Agricultural heritage, renamed in 1935. Named after a 94 1/4 acre field, first last out in the Anglo-Saxon…
Place Name Takes its name from the house, Wildcroft Manor, built by David Hartley following the death of local landowner…
Place Name Highlands Heath was laid out in 1936, and takes its name from the single large house (built in…
Place Name On the face of it the answer should be simple: the field belonging to some earl or the…
Place Name From around the mid-18thCentury this was one of the most exclusive areas of (what was to become) Greater…
Place Name The Duke of Clarence (August 21, 1765 – June 20, 1837) bought Petersham Lodge for 1,200 guineas from…
Place Name Named for the nearby Mount Clare, a Grade I listed house, designed by architect Sir Robert Taylor, and…
Place Name York Place, known variously as Sylverton, Bridge Court, and York House, was once the London residence of the…
Place Name Thought to be a reference to Castello di Vincigliata, an Italian medieval castle on a rocky hill to…