Place Name Named for the manor and village of Swaby in Lincolnshire, where Magdalen College, Oxford, held patronage, giving it…
Place Name Martin Joseph Routh (September 18, 1755 – December 22, 1854) was a classical scholar, devout churchman and President…
Place Name Magdalen College, Oxford University owned extensive land in Earlsfield, and began to develop it for housing from the…
Place Name Founded in 1458 by Bishop of Winchester William of Waynflete, Magdalen College is one of Oxford University’s most…
Place Name Recalling a long lost manor house in Multon, Lincolnshire, which today survives only in the name of Multon…
Place Name Somewhat confusingly, this is at the southern edge of Tooting Common. In fact, this does make sense historically…
Place Name William Lyford (1598 – October 3, 1653), was a nonconformist clergyman said to be of “great modesty and…
Place Name Takes its name from the largest of the Channel Islands. It became part of the Duchy of Normandy…
Place Name Industrial heritage. The name recalls the Wandsworth Flock Company, described in a Post Office directory of 1870 as…
Place Name Edward Ellerton (1770 – 1851) was a former a master of Magdalen College, Oxford University, and was later…