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The city of Aden, an ancient port city, became a British colony in 1839, when the East India Company landed Royal Marines at Aden to secure the territory and stop attacks by pirates against British shipping to India. In 1850 it was declared a free trade port, with the liquor, salt, arms, and opium trades developing duties as it won all the coffee trade from Mokha. In 1970 it ceased to be a Colony of the United Kingdom and became the capital of a new state known as the People’s Republic of South Yemen. This is one of a small cluster of roads named after cities that were then part of the British the Empire. It was laid out on agricultural land belonging to Castle Rising Farm. sometime between the wars. Patriotic developers would often name streets after Britain’s foreign possessions.
