Place Name
Gunton takes its name from one of two villages in East Anglia, one in Norfolk and one in Suffolk. In both cases the origin is same it comes from the Old Norse personal name Gunni and the Old English word tūn meaning enclosure or settlement. 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. Ascot Road is an example of the latter. 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.
