Place Name This road of modern housing was laid out over the estate of the former Dacre Lodge – previously…
Place Name Literal. This leads to two playing fields Ludgrove Playing Field and Hadley Field, where Southgate County Football Club…
Place Name On November 28, 1888 an article appeared in the Edinburgh Evening News under the headline New Golf Green…
Place Name Bowling has been popular in Putney since the early 17thCentury, the green that was laid here in 1636…
Place Name William Borradaile (10 July 1792 – February 16, 1838) vicar of Wandsworth in the 1830s, who killed himself,…
Place Name Newington is the almost obsolete name for the Elephant and Castle area, it comes from the Old English…
Place Name Thought to be named after Milo of Croton a 6thCentury BC superstar wrestler, who was six-time Olympic victor and enjoyed…
Place Name Eugen Sandow (April 2, 1867 – October 14, 1925) was a German bodybuilder and showman from Prussia also…
Place Name This is one of a small cluster of streets in the area named after golfing terms, the others…
Place Name After the theatre of animal cruelty that once stood here. For it was here that bears and bulls…