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Shirley Avenue, CR0

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Place Name A reference to the nearby village. Takes its name after local area, which means bright woodland, without a…

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Shirley Church Road, CR0

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Place Name Literal, this road leads to St John the Evangelist church. The church website says: “In July 1836, a…

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Shirley Hills Road, CR0

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Place Name Leading from Upper Shirley to Addington Hills (Shirley Hills Woods). The name Shirley means bright woodland, without a forest…

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Shirley Oaks Road, CR0

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Place Name Shirley Oaks was a development from around the 1970s, the additional Oaks being a reference to the woodland…

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Shirley Park Road, CR0

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Place Name Leads to the playing fields of the Oasis Academy school. Originally called Stroud Green Road. Named after the…

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Shirley Road, CR0

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Place Name Leads to the playing fields of the Oasis Academy school. Originally called Stroud Green Road. Named after the…

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Parkstone Avenue, RM11

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Place Name Called after Emerson Park’s developer William Carter’s home town of Parkstone in Poole, Dorset. Several other streets in the…

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Berther Road, RM11

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Place Name Takes its name from James Anthony Berther, who was the the site foreman of the Emerson Park Estate,…

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Hale Gardens, W3

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Place Name Sir Matthew Hale (November 1, 1609 – December 25, 1676) was an eminent judge who lived in Acton…

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Twyford Avenue, W3

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Place Name In reference to the parish in Ealing, which in the Middle Ages belonged to the lords of the…

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