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Takes its name from the county town of Suffolk, one of England’s oldest continuously inhabited communities, that has a history dating back over 1,400 years, with its origins as a key Anglo-Saxon settlement and port. First recorded as Gippeswic in the early medieval period, the town thrived due to its strategic location on the River Orwell, making it an important trading hub with continental Europe, particularly in the wool and textile trade. This 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.
