Clovelly Place in the suburb of Westmorland, Christchurch

Clovelly Place in Westmorland – nothing on library website yet most houses were built in 1980s. Couldn’t find out how the street got the name Clovelly as it isn’t a place in Cumbria but it is village in Devon. Most of the streets in this suburb are named after places in Cumbria. Only a couple of entries in Papers Past and one was a death notice. The other entry from 1983 was a name change for the cul de sac Woodside Common to Clovelly Place. Clovelly Place is a tiny street that runs off Woodside Common. Only 8 houses here and the one that caught my eye was huge. I walked up Woodside Common to this street and there was a horrible smell near the corner of these two streets. It was a chemical type of smell so I walked very fast so that it wouldn’t affect me but will try to remember to use my eye drops tonight just in case.

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