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This street, which takes its name after the 19thCentury Kinfauns Castle in Perthshire, is like many built by Archibald Cameron Corbett, named after a Scottish theme. It was laid out in 1899. One of the most prolific house builders in late Victorian/Edwardian England, Corbett was responsible for the development of many suburbs of Greater London. Indeed, in 1902, the vice-chair of Ilford Town council, said: “The impetus to Ilford was given by Mr Corbett.” A young Corbett and his family moved from Glasgow to London in the late 1860s, where they remained for the rest of their lives. He never forgot his homeland however, remembering many of its town and cities in the street names he developed. It was part of a development called the Mayfield estate built on land once occupied by Goodmayes Farm. The name, in the Celtic language, is descriptive of its situation at the head of a narrow valley inclosed with hills, and opening into the Carse of Gowrie.
