Springfield Road, 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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Springfield Road dates from the late 1850s.

The area had been called ’hanging field’ and ’spring field’ at the beginning of the 19th century.

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