Place Name While the hamlet or village of Tooting stretches back to Saxon times, first recorded in AD675, the addition…
Place Name Parts of Tilehurst, now a suburb of Reading in Berkshire, were once owned by Magdalen College, Oxford, which…
Place Name Named for the nearby St Barnabas church. Barnabas was one of the disciples, who carried out missionary journeys…
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…