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…
Place Name Hard to imagine with all the development, but at least until the mid-19thCentury this road led to an…
Place Name Originally plain Balham Road, this follows Stane Street, the great Roman superhighway which ran from Chichester to London.…
Place Name Originally plain Balham Road, this follows the Roman road of Stane Street, which ran from Chichester to London.…