Tresham Crescent, NW8
St Johns Wood tube station

One of the oft-repeated London underground memes is that St John’s Wood shares no letters in common with mackerel. To be fair, Hoxton on the London Overground also doesn’t...

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Tresham Crescent was built on land which was in medieval times owned by the Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem.

Thomas Tresham was Grand Prior (1557-59) of the Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem.

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