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I have finished walking and writing up the suburb of Westmorland. In Papers Past I found an article about the the development dated 1982. The subdivision was described as a modern Cashmere and to be an exclusive subdivision. The developers Wayne and Bruce Francis purchased Happy Home Farm from their father in 1958 and decided …

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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 …

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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 …

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Rushden Rise in Westmorland – Named after Rushden in Hertfordshire, England. Named to continue the theme in the subdivision of naming streets after places in historic Westmorland in England, since 1974 part of Cumbria. Named in 2005. A small amount of information from the library website and Rushden is nowhere Cumbria. Whoever named the street …

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Pentonville Close in Westmorland – nothing on library website and I couldn’t find out how the street got it’s name. Most the streets in this suburb are named after places in Cumbria but the only Pentonville that I could find was in the London area. Most houses here were built in the 1990s and 2000s …

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Woodside Common in Westmorland – nothing on library website yet most houses were built in the 1980s. There are several places in the UK with the name Woodside but none in Cumbria. Most entries on Papers Past were ads for sections and houses. A pleasant looking street with lovely houses. There is an entrance to …

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Sedgwick Way in Westmorland – Named after Sedgwick, a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England. 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. …

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Studfold Row in Westmorland – nothing on library website yet the houses here were built in 1980s and 1990s. Studfold is a place name in the Yorkshire near the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Some nice houses here but no footpath and I actually didn’t walk all of this street.

Savannah Lane in Westmorland – nothing on library website and I couldn’t find out how this lane got it’s name. Only 5 houses which were built between 1990 and 2012. I didn’t actually walk this street as it was a very narrow private lane.

Happy Home Rd in Westmorland – Named after Happy Home, the farm there owned by James George Francis (1907- 1962). The farm had been named by earlier owners and was sold to James Francis in the 1940s. First appears in street directories in 1953. A small amount of information from the library website. There were …

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