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Pembridge Lane in the suburb of Westmorland, Christchurch

Pembridge Lane in Westmorland – Named after Pembridge, a village in North Herefordshire. 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 1995. A small amount of information from the library website and whoever named …

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Millbeck Place in the suburb of Westmorland, Christchurch

Millbeck Place in Westmorland – Named after Millbeck, a small hamlet just north of the town of Keswick. 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 2013. A small amount of information from the library website and nothing …

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Lulworth Lane in the suburb of Westmorland, Christchurch

Lulworth Lane in Westmorland – nothing on library website yet the oldest house here is from 1920. The rest of the houses are from the 1980s. Not many entries on Paper Past and there were sections for sale in 1984 and at least one house for sale in 1989. I found two places in the …

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Langholme Lane in the suburb of Westmorland, Christchurch

Langholme Lane in Westmorland – Probably named after Langholme Mill Cottage, a 17th century former corn mill, near Lowick in Cumbria. 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 2013. A small amount of information from the library …

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Hawkshead Way in the suburb of Westmorland, Christchurch

Hawkshead Way in Westmorland – Named after Hawkshead, a village halfway between Coniston Water and Windermere near the northern edge of Esthwaite Water. 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 2013. A small amount of information from …

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Hadleigh Lane in the suburb of Westmorland, Christchurch

Hadleigh Lane in Westmorland – Named after Hadleigh in Suffolk. 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 whoever decided on the name for this street needs …

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Gosforth Way in the suburb of Westmorland, Christchurch

Gosforth Way in Westmorland – Named after Gosforth, a village and civil parish in the Lake District, in the Borough of Copeland 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. Named in 2013. A small amount of information …

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Francis Mill Grove in the suburb of Westmorland, Christchurch

Francis Mill Grove in Westmorland – Named after Colin Francis (d. 2012). Francis was project and sales manager for the Westmorland subdivision. Named in 2013. Information supplied by Lindsay Dove in an interview with Margaret Harper in 2015. A small amount of information on the library website and nothing that I can add about the …

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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 …

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Boonwood Close in the suburb of Westmorland, Christchurch

Boonwood Close in Westmorland – Named after a combination of the applicants’ family names, Boon and Wood. Developed at 280 Cashmere Road by Laurence Dann and Lindsay Macbeth. Laurence Dann is the son of Molly Dann, a niece of Charles Edwin Boon (1878-1951) who established Boon’s Bakery. Lindsay Macbeth is the daughter of Marion Macbeth, …

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