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Blakeney Road, BR3

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Place Name Named in honour of Elizabeth Margaret Blakeney who married local landowner and developer Albemarle Cator on April 24,…

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Birkbeck Road, BR3

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Place Name Constructed sometime after 1870 to take advantage of the railway line to the area, completed 14 years earlier.…

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Forster Road, BR3

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Place Name Named after Henry William Forster, 1st Baron Forster (January 31, 1866 – January 15, 1936) whose political career…

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Aldersmead Road, BR3

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Place Name Prior to development in the late 19thCentury this area was agricultural land belonging to Kent House Farm, which…

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Cherry Orchard Road, BR2

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Place Name Originally called Plough Lane, at least until the First World War, this road led to the Plough Inn…

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Whitebeam Avenue, BR2

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Place Name One of a small cluster of roads, on the former Coppice Estate, named after trees. Before development this…

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Tootswood Road, BR2

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Place Name Probably named after the same Anglo-Saxon root as Tothill, in Westminster, which comes from tote hill meaning a…

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Gravel Road, BR2

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Place Name Named, unsurprisingly, after a nearby former gravel pit, the stones of which were used to make the new…

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Turpington Lane, BR2

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Place Name Previously called Slough Lane after one of the farms that it led to. Its present name comes from…

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Daerwood Close, BR2

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Place Name Built between 1933 and 1937 the name is said to come from a corrupted combination of the developers…

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