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Takes its name from the East Sussex village of Alfriston, which means Ælfric’s town or settlement. This is one of a cluster of roads named after rural locations in the south of England. The principal developer was local estate agent Sir Edwin Evans who bought, demolished and developed Battersea Rise House and its 22 acres of land on the north west corner of Clapham Common. Sir Edwin’s consortium paid £51,000 for the whole plot and parcelled off lots for development, with 475 houses being built on the land between 1908 and 1915. A total of 475 houses were built on the land between 1908 and 1915, forming not only Alfriston Road, but Muncaster Road, Canford Road and Bowood Road. As an estate agent, Sir Edwin would have known the type of traditional names that would appeal to potential home buyers. And he must have done something right, the estate agency that bore his name only closed in 2014. Part of this street for a time was Winsham Street and later Winsham Grove.
