Penton is named after Penton Rise, on land that was comprised Henry Penton's fields. Formerly called Penton Place, it was home to a number a number of artistic residents, including the clown Joseph Grimaldi, the watercolourist and engraver John Boyne, and the artist and wood-engraver Luke Clennell. Today it is home to the Weston Rise Estate, a testimony to the brutalist phase of English architecture, built for the Greater London Council between 1965 - 1968 to the designs of Howell, Killick, Patridge & Amis.