Place Name Magdalen College, Oxford University owned extensive land in Earlsfield, and began to develop it for housing from the…
Place Name Directional, this road links Wandsworth to South Wimbledon/Merton. Merton, formerly an ancient Surrey parish, is now a London…
Place Name Founded in 1458 by Bishop of Winchester William of Waynflete, Magdalen College is one of Oxford University’s most…
Place Name Recalling a long lost manor house in Multon, Lincolnshire, which today survives only in the name of Multon…
Place Name Somewhat confusingly, this is at the southern edge of Tooting Common. In fact, this does make sense historically…
Place Name Minstead is in the New Forest; the village’s name is thought to derive from the Old English word…
Place Name Until this area was developed it was farmland and as the name suggests this would have been a…
Place Name Norley is a farm, woodland and hamlet (named Norleywood rather than Norley) in the New Forest near the…
Place Name Mary Florence Luttrell, dowager Baroness Westbury (died August 1, 1901), was a daughter of the Reverend Alexander Fownes…
Place Name Daniel Lysons (April 28, 1762 – 1834) who was known by the nickname Stumpity Stump was curate of…