Place Name Takes its name from Heathfield Cottages, which stood overlooking Wandsworth Common from the first half of the 19thCentury,…
Place Name Industrial heritage. The name recalls the Wandsworth Flock Company, described in a Post Office directory of 1870 as…
Place Name Industrial heritage. Despite its unpromising boggy ground this small corner of Wandsworth sitting at the mouth of the…
Place Name On the face of it the answer should be simple: the field belonging to some earl or the…
Place Name Dunt’s Hill was first recorded in the 17thCentury and later became the site of Duntshill Mills calico printing…
Place Name Stanford’s map of 1864 clearly shows how marshy and wet the Wandle Delta used to be. North of…
Place Name This was once a quiet backwater known as Wandsworth Plain, gentile enough for royal mistress Elizabeth “Jane” Shore,…
Place Name Few street names can be quite as literal as this one with a rare double meaning. In road…
Place Name Quite literal. Named after the River Wandle that flows nearby, rising near Croydon and flowing into the Thames…
Place Name The road leading to Carshalton, this is the main road that leads between Sutton and Carshalton. The original…