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Benrogan Drive, Perks Drive and Eastman Drive in Halswell. Too new to be on library website and the roads are still only half formed. No houses yet. The land was was sold in 2020 and had a 1970s house on it. The nearby wetlands area is called Eastman Wetlands and it is possibly named after …

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Shorthorn Lane in Halswell – too new for library website. Shorthorn is a cattle breed but can’t find any evidence of cattle having ever been on this land. The subdivision was described as a boutique subdivision which usually means expensive. The houses here are huge on fairly large sections and built between 2021 and 2023. …

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Rempstone Drive in Halswell – Named after Rempstone, a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe district of Nottinghamshire, England. Named because it runs alongside the Nottingham Stream. First appears in street directories in 1995. A small amount of information from the library website. Most houses were built in the 1990s but a few were …

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Empress Place in Halswell- nothing on library website yet all all the houses were built in the 1990s. Several streets in this area have names that are titles in the peerage. A couple of nice houses here and most had nice gardens. There was a footpath on only one side of the street but it …

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Thornlea Place in Halswell- First appears in street directories in 1995. A tiny amount of information from the library website. All houses here were built in the 1990s. None of the houses stood out for me but some of the gardens were lovely. It was a tree lined streets and there is an entrance to …

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Vanderbilt Place in Halswell – nothing on library website yet all the houses were built in the 1990s. The street is possibly named after the American artist Gloria Vanderbilt. The street has a footpath on both sides of the street and there were some nice gardens here. There is a really lovely reserve here which …

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Viceroy Place in Halswell – nothing on library website yet most houses were built in the 1990s. Several streets in the area are named after titles in the peerage. The footpath is on both sides of the street and there is a reserve here with a playground. There is a lamp in the middle of …

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Baronet Lane in Halswell – nothing on library website yet the 5 houses here were built in 1990. Several of the streets in the area are named after titles in the peerage. The street had a footpath and there was one house that I quite liked. I don’t usually like modern houses.

Astor Place in Halswell – First appears in street directories in 1995. A tiny amount of information from the library website. Half the houses were built in 1990s and the rest in 2015. The street had a footpath on both sides and the houses didn’t really stand out for me but I did like the …

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Lantern Lane in Halswell – Developed post-1997. Not a lot of information on the library website. I couldn’t find out any other information about the street. I didn’t actually walk this one as it looked like a private driveway and I was surprised to realise that there were 11 houses here. I thought that it …

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