Penruddock Rise in Westmorland – Named after Penruddock, a small village in the English county of Cumbria. Named to continue the theme in the subdivision of naming streets after places in historic Westmorland in England, since 1974 part of Cumbria. First appears in street directories in 1980.
A small amount of information from the library website and Penruddock means headland by the little ford. Most entries on Papers Past were ads for sections and houses in the 1980s. In 1976 the building of the pumping station was up for tender. In 1979 there were plans for a primary school to be built with the frontage to be on Penruddock Rise but this obviously didn’t happen. The developer had plans for shopping centres and a tavern. There were objections from residents about the tavern.
This is a long street that starts at Cashmere Rd where is is a reserve called Francis Reserve named after the developer’s family. There are nearly 200 houses on this street and they are very different in styles. There is one house from 1950s but you can’t see it from the road. Most houses between Cashmere Rd and Blencathra Place were built in the 1980s with a couple from 1970. Until about 2012 there were no houses beyond Blencathra Place. All the houses above Blencathra Place were built between 2014 and 2023 with houses still being built. Great views from the upper part of the street but most the houses are ugly here.
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