Place Name While the hamlet or village of Tooting stretches back to Saxon times, first recorded in AD675, the addition…
Place Name Thought to be a reference to a former lord of the manor’s Continental roots. The Wandsworth History Society,…
Place Name On the face of it this short, busy, and dirty looking road, that connects the A205 in the…
Place Name Parts of Tilehurst, now a suburb of Reading in Berkshire, were once owned by Magdalen College, Oxford, which…
Place Name Tangley is a small, village in the northwest of Hampshire. The name itself is Anglo Saxon and is…
Place Name Originally St John’s Road. The name changed shortly after the Second World War. The Polish Church of St…
Place Name Originally called The Grove. Like St Ann’s Crescent, which was, confusingly, called St Anne’s Hill, it is named…
Place Name Curiously while St Ann’s Crescent has retained its apostrophe throughout the decades, it has lost an e in…
Place Name Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909) was one of the bad boys of poetry…
Place Name Agricultural. Until the 1980s this was a former industrial site with both gas works and a coal depot,…