Ravensdale Rise in Westmorland – Named after Ravensdale Park, a village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire. 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 1984.
A small amount of information from the library website and Ravensdale Park is nowhere near Cumbria. There is a Ravensdale in Ireland but nothing in Cumbria. The name was bugging me as I thought that the name was familiar and it was in connection with caves. I found Ravenstonedale in Cumbria and there are caves in that area.
Papers Past had lots of ads in 1980s for sections for sale. A few death notices. In 1981 there was a headline about the developer stepping up the fight to stop erosion. The developers for the suburb of Westmorland were the sons of James George Francis who owned Happy Home Farm. I thoroughly searched Ancestry website but couldn’t find any family connection to Cumbria.
Most houses here were built in the 1980s and 1990s but as you go further up the street the houses were built between 2013 to 2022. There was a mixture of nice houses and ugly houses.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 