Place Name Leads, unsurprisingly, to Albert Bridge. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (August 26, 1819 – December 14, 1861)…
Place Name Literal. A hill in Balham. John Field in his study Place Names of Greater London speculates that it…
Place Name Princess Beatrice (April 14, 1857 – October 26, 1944), was the youngest of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s children and…
Place Name John Augustus Beaumont (September 16, 1806 – September 10, 1886) was the son of the hugely successful John…
Place Name Alfred Tennyson (August 6, 1809 – October 6, 1892), or Alfred Lord Tennyson as he came to be…
Place Name Named after the British Expedition to Abyssinia to rescue several missionaries and two representatives of the British government…
Place Name Henry Thrale (1728 – April 4, 1781) was born into a brewing family, his father Ralph Thrale having…
Place Name First mentioned in Anglo-Saxon charters of AD693 as Badrices īeg or Badrices ege or even Batrices ege (according…