Place Name Thomas Mawson (died 1714), founded what was to become Fuller’s Brewery. He was living in Chiswick by at…
Place Name It was named after the Pindar of Wakefield, an inn that first opened sometime around 1517, on Gray’s…
Place Name Legend has it that the area was named after a brave Mother Superior who defied Henry VIII as…
Place Name Legend has it that the area was named after a brave Mother Superior who defied Henry VIII as…
Place name Formerly Kent Street or, as it would have been known to Geoffrey Chaucer author of the Canterbury Tales…
Place Name The Black Swan Tavern stood at 71 Bermondsey Street from at least 1822 and quite possibly much earlier.…
Place Name This was originally Hat And Tun Yard, after public house still standing on the corner, whose signboard was…
Place Name This road follows the ancient boundary between Mortlake and Barnes and takes its name from the riverside pub…
Place Name There are a number of possible theories behind the naming of this street, which was first laid out…
Place Name First recorded in 1685. This was originally thought to have been named from a local pear tree that…