Place Name A reference to the canons of St Bartholomew’s Church, Smithfield, who held the manor here after land in…
Place Name A reference to the canons of St Bartholomew’s Church, Smithfield, who held the manor here after land in…
Place Name A reference to the canons of St Bartholomew’s Church, Smithfield, who held the manor here after land in…
Place Name This was, and remains, the main route across the former Stratford Marsh, now largely developed. The road name…
Place Name Laid out over the extensive lands of the former Bloomsbury town house of the dukes of Bedford. The…
Place Name Laid out over the extensive lands of the former Bloomsbury town house of the dukes of Bedford. The…
Place Name The adjacent St Helen’s Church, Bishopsgate is all that remains of the former priory that stood nearby. The…
Place Name Lesnes Abbey was founded in 1178 by Richard de Luci the Chief Justiciar of England and first Canon…
Place Name Recalling the Abbots of Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk who were given a property here sometime before 1160,…
Place Name Charterhouse comes from an Anglicisation of Chartreuse, from the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the Carthusians in Burgundy,…