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Blencathra Place in Westmorland – Named after Blencathra in Cumbria, a mountain at the far northern edge of the Lake District National Park. 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 …

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Dove Grove Westmorland – Named after Lindsay Allan Dove (1942-).Dove, a real estate agent, was involved with the Westmorland subdivision and sold many of the houses built there. He was also one of the first people to build a home there. Named in 2013. Information supplied by Lindsay Dove in an interview with Margaret Harper …

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Cumbria Lane in Westmorland – nothing on library website and the houses here were built in 1990s. The streets in this area are named after places in the county of Cumbria. Cumbria is the latinisation of the OE tribal name Cumbre meaning territory of the Cymy or Cumbrian Britons. This was a lovely looking street …

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Caldberg Close in Westmorland – nothing on library website and as the houses were built between 2016 and 2023 it would be too new for library website. They haven’t updated the street name database in ages. It is a place name in Cumbria and the rest of the streets in the area are named after …

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Caldbeck Lane in Westmorland – Named after Caldbeck, a village in North 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 1995. A small amount of information from the library website. Meaning of Caldbeck is …

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Rosthwaite Place in Westmorland – nothing on library website and the houses were built in the 1990s. Rosthwaite is a place name in Cumbria and the rest of the streets in the area are named after places in Cumbria. The word is from Old Norse meaning peak above the clearing with heaps of stones. I …

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Sedbergh Place in Westmorland – nothing on library website. It would have been named after a place in Cumbria as the rest of the streets in the area are named are place names in Cumbria. Sedbergh means flat topped hill. The houses here were built in the 2000s and they didn’t really stand out for …

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Uldale Place in Westmorland – Named after Uldale, a small village 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 1996. A small amount of information from the library website. My book about …

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Thirlmere Lane in Westmorland – Named after Thirlmere, a reservoir in the English Lake District 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. First appears in street directories in 1995. A small amount of information from library website. …

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Foxfield Lane in Westmorland – nothing on library website yet the houses here were built in the 1990s. Couldn’t find the council minutes for this street. It will have been named after a village on the West Coast of Cumbria as the rest of the streets in the area are named after places in Cumbria. …

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