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 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 Originally called Red Lion Street, it later became part of York Road before adopting its current name. The…
Place Name Literal, it is the hill on the eastern bank of the River Wandle, today it is now part…
Place Name Stanford’s map of 1864 clearly shows how marshy and wet the Wandle Delta used to be. North of…
Place Name William Borradaile (10 July 1792 – February 16, 1838) vicar of Wandsworth in the 1830s, who killed himself,…
Place Name Developed in the late 2010s following the closure of the Ram Brewery on this site, the name, cleverly,…
Place Name This was once a quiet backwater known as Wandsworth Plain, gentile enough for royal mistress Elizabeth “Jane” Shore,…