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This is one of a small cluster of streets that are named after places in and around Cumbria, the county in which the developers John Laing was established in 1848. Laing which began life as a small building based in Carlisle grew to become a major construction company in the United Kingdom and internationally. In 1922 they moved from their base in the north west to London and were busy developing this area of Riddlesdown, shortly before the Second World War. Nearby streets include Borrowdale Close, Dalegarth Gardens, Derwent Drive, Dunmail Drive, Eskdale Gardens, Grisedale Close, Grisedale Gardens, and Honister Heights. Ingleboro Drive was also included but this would appear to be a reference to the Yorkshire Dales. The name of the lake is believed to have one of two possible origins, firstly that it means the lake by the dairy pastures, from the Old English butere and mere. The second, that it is a corrupt form of an Old Norse personal name Buthar, as in Buthar’s mere (lake).
