Place Name Thought to be a reference to either the Broadwater family, feudal tenants of Tooting Manor, or (more likely)…
Place Name Takes its name from Bridgford in Nottinghamshire, now known as West Bridgford. Originally a small agricultural village, its…
Place Name Dr Ralph Blegborough (April 8, 1769 – January 23, 1827) was a physician and “man mid-wife” whose interest…
Place Name Requiring no leap of the imagination, this is the road that Balham Station stands on. The station was…
Place Name Look at a modern map and this would seem to be a reference to the odd parcel of…
Place Name Originally plain Balham Road, this follows Stane Street, the great Roman superhighway which ran from Chichester to London.…
Place Name Henry Thrale (1728 – April 4, 1781) was born into a brewing family, his father Ralph Thrale having…
Place Name In Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe, Friday was the shipwrecked adventurer’s servant who he saved from a band of…