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…
Place Name Industrial heritage. A mill is said to have stood on the spot from 1782, when George Ansell, a…
Place Name Industrial heritage. A reference to the former paper mill that once straddled the River Wandle. It is thought…
Place Name This was previously the site of the manor of Alferthyng, which means half of a fouth part, in…
Place Name Peter of Abingdon, presumably a native of Abingdon in Oxfordshire, was the first Warden of Merton College, Oxford,…
PLace name The road leading to Carshalton, this is the main road that leads between Sutton and Carshalton. The original…
Place Name Named after the River Wandle that flows nearby, rising near Croydon and flowing into the Thames at Wandsworth,…