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Originally Worple Road. The Worple Way was a bridleway existing from at least the medieval period that ran from White Hart Lane and Sheen Lane running between Ewe Furlong also called Town Furlong and Short Furlong, in the Mortlake Common Field. When the railway was built in 1846 along the original Worple Way, it was ordered that a path should be built on either side of the tracks. Charles Hailstone in Alleyways of Mortlake and East Sheen explains: “The Wapple, Whapple, Warple, Warepall or Worple Way, as it occurs in old records, comes from the Saxon wearp in the sense of to throw or cast up (cf German, wren). A ridge of land was in provincial husbandry called a wapp, perhaps from a similar source.” This road comes off North Worple Way.
