Place Name Bowling has been popular in Putney since the early 17thCentury, the green that was laid here in 1636…
Place Name William Borradaile (10 July 1792 – February 16, 1838) vicar of Wandsworth in the 1830s, who killed himself,…
Place Name Takes its name from Bordon, in the east of Hampshire, dates back only to 1863 when it was…
Place Name Dr Ralph Blegborough (April 8, 1769 – January 23, 1827) was a physician and “man mid-wife” whose interest…
Place Name It is the original route of the main highway to Portsmouth and the south-west England as it passed…
Place Name William Ponsonby (1704 – March 11, 1793) was the 2nd Earl of Bessborough, who in 1761 commissioned Sir…
Place Name An admittedly oblique reference to the nearby Caesar’s Camp on Wimbledon Common. Elizabethan antiquary William Camden referenced the…
Place Name Developed in the late 2010s following the closure of the Ram Brewery on this site, the name, cleverly,…
Place Name A reference to the Kentish manor of Bedgebury, which was most likely suggested by the principle developer Alfred…
Place Name Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, (February 21, 1910 – September 5, 1982) was a British RAF…