Place Name The acanthus leaf is one of the most common ornamental features to used in decorative architecture throughout history.…
Place Name The land on which this road was laid over was once owned by the dukes of Bedford. The…
Place Name The land on which this road was laid over was once owned by the dukes of Bedford. The…
Place Name A church has stood in Battersea since as early as AD800. Indeed the church lasted throughout the Middle…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. Today’s name was featured in 1718 referencing a local field which was first mentioned as le…
Place Name Originally plain High Street. The name Battersea was first mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon charters of AD693 as Badrices…
Place Name Originally called Battersea Road, the western section of this thoroughfare was at one time called Lower Wandsworth Road…
Place Name Requiring no leap of the imagination, this is the road that Balham Station stands on. The station was…
Place Name Look at a modern map and this would seem to be a reference to the odd parcel of…
Place Name This was certainly new when it was laid out in the mid-19thCentury, running between Balham Road (today’s Balham…