Named after Abbey Road, which recalls Stratford Langthorne Abbey.
The Cistercian abbey, founded in 1135 and known locally as West Ham Abbey, became one of the largest and wealthiest in England until Henry VIII dissolved it in 1538. 'Langthorne', recorded in 1366, recalls a distinctive thorn tree, possibly a pollarded hawthorn. This is not the Beatles' Abbey Road, which is near St John's Wood.