Like the Lea, the Rom also forms the boundary of two boroughs: Barking & Dagenham and Havering. At this point, smartypants readers will have guessed that Romford gets its name as a ford on the River Rom. Not quite. It's thought that Romford means a 'wide or spacious ford' over a ri...
London's most prosaically named airport, and its newest, opened in 1987 on an unused strip of land in the Royal Docks. The terminal is around seven miles from the Square Mile that it's named after, but London City Airport was always going to attract more business than London Formerly Dere...
A Dictionary of London Place Names 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 1 作者: A Mills 摘要: PREFACE INTRODUCTION THE GREATER LONDON BOROUGHS MAPS DICTIONARY OF LONDON PLACE-NAMES GLOSSARY OF THE ELEMENTS FOUND IN LONDON PLACE-NAMES SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY RECOMMENDED WEB LINKS...
This district of London, which lies to the south-east of Peckham in the London Borough of Southwark, is believed to owe its name to a local tavern named, you guessed it, the Nun’s Head on the linear Nunhead Green (there’s still a pub there, calledThe Old Nun’s Head, in a buil...
Protesters in Bristol threw a statue of Edward Colston into the city’s harbour on Sunday “Had we had any similar memorial we would be rapidly removing them as well.” He added: “We need a wider conversation about how we recognise the wrongs of our imperial past and how...
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If your new furry buddy really does suit the streets of Paris, Milan or the Royal boroughs, check out these fancy (and to be honest, sassy) girl dog names. Lady Opal Saffron Oxana Caviar Emerald Ingrid Colette Hyacinth Onyx Top black female dog names ...
Thepageis pretty self-explanatory: “The origin of London’s place names (districts and boroughs).” Some are less exciting than others (St Pancras: “named after a saint”; Shepherds Bush: “Shepherd’s bushes”), but it’s fun to peruse: who knew that Cockfosters meant “estate of th...
More interesting is their nickname 'The Addicks'. It is believed to be a south-east London corruption of 'haddocks', after the team's practice of dining on fish and chips from local fishmonger Arthur 'Ikey' Brian. Chelsea The Blues' name dates back to Anglo-Saxon times, with Chelsea a...