18 November 2022

There Really Is A "Weald Stone" At Harrow And Wealdstone | Londonist

There Really Is A "Weald Stone" At Harrow And Wealdstone | Londonist
... It's easy enough to look these things up, but the answer is often educated guesswork. Most places in London picked up their names in medieval times. We don't have bits of paper to confirm that Mr Wemba really was the landholder of what became Wembley, or an Anglo-Saxon lord called Kenna was the nominative fountainhead of Kennington. ...

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