Place Name
Takes its name from a suburb of Bournemouth, the name is thought to come from the Old English words bors denoting something of a spiky or bristly nature and combe or valley overgrown with such plants. So the valley of spiky plants. It is one of ten streets running north-south sandwiched between Links Road and Seely Road which were named after consecutive letters of the alphabet running from A to J. They were laid out on Tooting Golf Course around the 1910s. Each named for a place in Britain, and most, but not all, after seaside towns. Alphabet streets were a popular device of developers when naming large estates, allowing them to pick traditional names that were popular with home buyers and create a uniformity, without having to put too much effort in.
