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Belvedere Square, SW19

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Place Name Until 1588, Wimbledon was a farmers’ village, of little importance. That changed when Sir Thomas Cecil, the eldest…

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Filed under: Belvedere Estate Company, Belvedere House, Cecil family, Merton, streets named after houses, Village, Wimbledon

Belvedere Grove, SW19

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Place Name Until 1588, Wimbledon was a farmers’ village, of little importance. That changed when Sir Thomas Cecil, the eldest…

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Filed under: Belvedere Estate Company, Belvedere House, Cecil family, Merton, streets named after houses, Village, Wimbledon

Belvedere Avenue, SW19

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Place Name Until 1588, Wimbledon was a farmers’ village, of little importance. That changed when Sir Thomas Cecil, the eldest…

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Filed under: Belvedere Estate Company, Belvedere House, Cecil family, Merton, streets named after houses, Village, Wimbledon

Arterberry Road, SW19

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Place Name Field Name. Once agricultural land which was part of the large Mount Ararat estate, this was among the…

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Filed under: agriculture, field name, Merton, Middle English, Mount Ararat estate, Village, Wimbledon

Lancaster Road, SW19

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Place Name The Reverend Thomas Lancaster was a village schoolmaster, who later ordained as a minister and set up a…

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Filed under: Horatio Nelson, Merton, streets named after priests, streets named after schools, teacher, Village, Wimbledon

Lancaster Place, SW19

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Place Name This is one of several roads, so named as they come off of Lancaster Road. The Reverend Thomas…

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Filed under: Merton, streets named after priests, streets named after schools, Village, Wimbledon

Lancaster Gardens, SW19

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Place Name This is one of several roads, so named as they come off of Lancaster Road. The Reverend Thomas…

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Filed under: Horatio Nelson, Merton, streets named after priests, streets named after schools, Village

Lancaster Avenue, SW19

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Place Name This is one of several roads, so named as they come off of Lancaster Road. This was was…

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Filed under: cluster, Horatio Nelson, Merton, streets named after priests, Village, Wimbledon

Camp View, SW19

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Place Name As with Camp Road this was named from the erroneous 19thCentury notion that Julius Caesar had camped near…

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Filed under: fake history, Merton, streets named after a Roman connection, Village, Wimbledon

Camp Road, SW19

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Place Name Previously Workhouse Lane, the name was changed sometime around the turn of the 19thCentury. Comes from the erroneous…

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Filed under: fake history, gentrification, Merton, name change, streets named after a Roman connection, streets named after historical events, Village, Wimbledon

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