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Tag: Wandsworth

Whitelands Park, SW15

25 February 2025 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Whitelands College, which formerly occupied this site and after which the Park is named, was a woman’s teaching…

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Filed under: Putney, Roehampton, streets named after buildings, streets named after schools, Wandsworth, women

Vitali Close, SW15

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Place Name Miroslaw (Mirek) Vitali, OBE (October 5, 1914 – February 19, 1992) was a physician specialising in the treatment…

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Filed under: Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Putney, Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, Roehampton Hospital, streets named after doctors, streets named after Poles, streets named after Russians, streets named after Ukrainians, Wandsworth, World War Two

Waynflete Street, SW18

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Place Name A reference to the Bishop of Winchester William of Waynflete, who in 1458 founded Magdalen College, one of Oxford…

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Filed under: All Fathing manor, Earlsfield, Magdalen College, Magdalen Estate, Oxford University, Roman Catholic, streets named after bishops, streets named after priests, Tooting, Wandsworth

Beclands Road, SW17

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Place Name While the hamlet or village of Tooting stretches back to Saxon times, first recorded in AD675, the addition…

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Filed under: Benedictine, Furzedown, names from Norman French, streets named after a French connection, streets named after abbeys, streets named after religious houses, streets with a Scandinavian connection, Tooting, Tooting Bec, Wandsworth

Spanish Road, SW18

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Place Name Thought to be a reference to a former lord of the manor’s Continental roots. The Wandsworth History Society,…

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Filed under: Allfarthing Manor, Battersea, Charles I, Streets named after a Spanish connection, Wandsworth, Wandsworth Town

Wandsworth Plain, SW18

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Place Name On the face of it this short, busy, and dirty looking road, that connects the A205 in the…

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Filed under: streets named after the landscape, Wandsworth, Wandsworth Town

Tilehurst Road, SW18

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Place Name Parts of Tilehurst, now a suburb of Reading in Berkshire, were once owned by Magdalen College, Oxford, which…

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Filed under: Earlsfield, Magdalen College, Magdalen Estate, Oxford University, streets with a Berkshire connection, Tooting, Wandsworth, Wandsworth Common

Tangley Grove, SW15

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Place Name Tangley is a small, village in the northwest of Hampshire. The name itself is Anglo Saxon and is…

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Filed under: Alton Estate, Anglo-Saxon, Putney, Putney Heath, Roehampton, social housing, streets with a Hampshire connection, Wandsworth

St Johns Avenue, SW15

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Place Name Originally St John’s Road. The name changed shortly after the Second World War. The Polish Church of St…

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Filed under: apostrophe, Church of England, East Putney, Putney, roads named after saints, Roman Catholic, street named after a church, Wandsworth

St Ann’s Hill, SW18

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Place Name Originally called The Grove. Like St Ann’s Crescent, which was, confusingly, called St Anne’s Hill, it is named…

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Filed under: Church of England, Putney, street named after a church, streets named after saints, Wandsworth, Wandsworth Town

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