Old Perry Street, BR7

Place Name

Named after the pear orchard on Perry Street Shaw Farm (a shaw being an archaic word for a small clump of trees) that was on the Scadbury Park estate until development. The area itself was its own small community known as Perry Street, the name was first recorded as Peristrete in 1530.

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