Place Name For many centuries Penge was a detached hamlet of the ancient parish of Battersea in the Brixton hundred…
Place Name Whitelands College, which formerly occupied this site and after which the Park is named, was a woman’s teaching…
Place Name Miroslaw (Mirek) Vitali, OBE (October 5, 1914 – February 19, 1992) was a physician specialising in the treatment…
Place Name A reference to the Bishop of Winchester William of Waynflete, who in 1458 founded Magdalen College, one of Oxford…
Place Name While the hamlet or village of Tooting stretches back to Saxon times, first recorded in AD675, the addition…
Place Name Thought to be a reference to a former lord of the manor’s Continental roots. The Wandsworth History Society,…
Place Name On the face of it this short, busy, and dirty looking road, that connects the A205 in the…
Place Name Parts of Tilehurst, now a suburb of Reading in Berkshire, were once owned by Magdalen College, Oxford, which…
Place Name Tangley is a small, village in the northwest of Hampshire. The name itself is Anglo Saxon and is…
Place Name Originally St John’s Road. The name changed shortly after the Second World War. The Polish Church of St…