Woodcote Valley Road falls within the boundary of William Webb’s Garden Estate at Woodcote.
April 2021 archive
Amen Court, EC4M
Many of the highways and byways around the precincts of St Paul’s Cathedral bear names which have ecclesiastical origins.
Allington Street, SW1E
Allington Street was named after Allington in Lincolnshire.
Allcroft Road, NW5
Allcroft Road was built between 1862 and 1870 to links Queen’s Crescent with roads to the south.
Barfett Street, W10
Barfett Street is a street on the Queen’s Park Estate, W10
Ealing Broadway to Ealing Common walk
This walk runs from the westernmost station on the District Line – Ealing Broadway – and continues until the next station along the line, Ealing Common.
Forest Hill
Forest Hill was sparsely populated until the coming of the railway in the mid-19th century.
A Tale of Two Cities
In the new suburbs carved out by the middle classes to escape from the noise, smoke, dirt, and crowding of the central areas of Victorian London, poor and squalid enclaves could frequently be found. They were not there by accident. The comfortable suburb and the meaner suburb within it were mutually interdependent. The Potteries, Notting …
Greenwich
Greenwich is a town, now part of the south eastern urban sprawl of London, on the south bank of the River Thames.
West Smithfield, EC1A
West Smithfield is the oldest street of the Smithfield area.