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West Barnes

West Barnes proper noun: a rural area in Northeast Surrey, England, which became a rural pocket partly in the Merton and Morden Urban District and partly in the Municipal Borough of Malden and Coombe until a railway station Motspur Park was built in it in 1925, after which the area was developed as a suburban town named after the station. Local authority reorganisation in 1965 combined it into Greater London, with the original name fossilised in a road name "West Barnes Lane". (OS grid ref TQ2267).

Proper noun

West Barnes

  1. (historical) A rural area in Northeast Surrey, England, which became a rural pocket partly in the Merton and Morden Urban District and partly in the Municipal Borough of Malden and Coombe until a railway station Motspur Park was built in it in 1925, after which the area was developed as a suburban town named after the station. Local authority reorganisation in 1965 combined it into Greater London, with the original name fossilised in a road name "West Barnes Lane". (OS grid ref TQ2267)

Origin of West Barnes

West + Barnes Refers to the barns previously existing at the west end of the mediaeval Merton Abbey estate (located near OS grid ref TQ2368)

Questions about West Barnes

What does West Barnes mean?
West Barnes means a rural area in Northeast Surrey, England, which became a rural pocket partly in the Merton and Morden Urban District and partly in the Municipal Borough of Malden and Coombe until a railway station Motspur Park was built in it in 1925, after which the area was developed as a suburban town named after the station. Local authority reorganisation in 1965 combined it into Greater London, with the original name fossilised in a road name "West Barnes Lane". (OS grid ref TQ2267).
What part of speech is West Barnes?
West Barnes is a proper noun.

Words near West Barnes in the dictionary

  1. West Baldwin
  2. West Ballina
  3. West Bank
  4. West Banker
  5. West Bankers
  6. West Barnes
  7. West Barnstable
  8. West Bath
  9. West Bathurst
  10. West Baton Rouge Parish
  11. West Bay

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