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Tag: Tooting

Balham Station Road, SW12

November 17, 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Requiring no leap of the imagination, this is the road that Balham Station stands on. The station was…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Balham, Railway, Tooting, Wandsworth

Balham Park Road, SW12

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Place Name Look at a modern map and this would seem to be a reference to the odd parcel of…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Tooting, Trinity, Wandsworth

Balham High Road, SW17

November 13, 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Originally plain Balham Road, this follows Stane Street, the great Roman superhighway which ran from Chichester to London.…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, streets named after a Roman connection, Tooting, Trinity, Wandsworth

Friday Road, CR4

June 6, 2020 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name In Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe, Friday was the shipwrecked adventurer’s servant who he saved from a band of…

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Filed under: author, Collier's Wood, Daniel Defoe, Merton, Mitcham, Robinson Crusoe, Tooting

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