Carnaby Close in St Albans – Named after Carnaby, a small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The developer wanted names reflecting an English country estate. Formed post-1997. Information supplied in 2009 by Bob Pritchard, subdivisions officer, Christchurch City Council.
A small amount of information from the library website and I was a bit surprised about the reason for the name. Because the street runs off Lewisham Park I assumed that it would have been named after Carnaby Street in London. When I looked at information and the maps about Carnaby in Yorkshire I realised that I would have driven past this village when I was going to Bridlington.
Nothing on Papers Past about the street or subdivision and I noticed that Papers Past now go up to 2001. This must be very recent as I am sure when I looked at it last week it still only went up to 1989.
When googling the street I only got real estate ads and the houses here were built around 2000. There was a footpath on only one side of the street and the houses were rather ugly. One house looked like it had it’s own tennis court. The houses were large and most had about 4 or 5 cars parked in the driveways. The houses were well beyond my budget as most seemed to be worth about 2 million dollars. I walked this street early this morning and it was a cold and frosty morning. I had to leave my house before 7am this morning before they were possibly going to close my street. This meant that I would arrive at my son’s house far too early so I went walking.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 