Ridgeway Place  Nothing on library website –

I have no idea where I got the following information – Ridgeway lies just south of the South Yorkshire border and is 5 miles south east of Sheffield. Ridgeway is a self-contained village around 700 years old and would once have been part of Sherwood Forrest.

Note there are several places called Ridgeway in the UK but as the original developer George Humphreys was from Yorkshire it is possible this is why the street was given this name.

When I walked this street last year there was only one or two houses that had been built.

Cecil Wood Way – Named after Cecil Walter Wood (1878-1947). Wood was an architect responsible for a number of the houses on Richmond Hill. First appears in street directories in 1981.

A small amount of information from the library website and I can’t add anything to it. A tiny street with 3 or 4 houses that were built in the 1980s

Antrim Street -Named after County Antrim, one of six counties forming Northern Ireland. Named in 1927 at the request of the estate of W. Walls, the owner of the land subdivided to form the street.

A small amount of information from the library website. I am not sure why it is called Antrim as the headstone for William Walls says that he is from Co Derry. It is possible that his wife is from Antrim.

Information from Papers Past. William Walls was former landlord of Cambridge Hotel and had also been landlord of Sandridge Hotel. He died in the Port Hills in 1889 by shooting himself by accident when climbing through a fence. He was only 48 years old and an article said that he left a wife and 10 children.

His wife Elizabeth died in 1926 and the sections were offered for sale in July 1927 with a note saying new street known as Antrim Street. William and Elizabeth are buried at Addington.

This is a small street with a mixture of new and old houses and there was at least one empty section when I walked this street.

Browning Street  – Formerly Lytton Street. Named after Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton (1803-1873). Re-named Browning Street. Named after Robert Browning (1812-1889). Lytton was an author. One of the “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of the Sydenham Borough Council on 19 January 1880. Re-named Browning Street on 11 October 1954. Browning was a poet.

A small amount of information from the library website and I can add nothing to it.

This street had houses of every style you could think of. A couple of Art Deco flat roofed style from the 1930s/ 1940s. Ugly modern blocks of flats plus houses from 1960s to the 1980s. There were 2 or 3 that looked much older and could be original houses. Some were well kept and others were looking rundown. A weird street as it looked as if it was part of three other streets.

Battersea St – Formerly part of Third Street. The streets south of, and parallel to, Moorhouse Avenue were named in numerical order. Re-named Battersea Street. Probably renamed after St. John’s Training College at Battersea, England.

The section from Harper Street to Colombo Road was re-named Battersea Street officially on 2 August 1880, when the Street Naming committee of the Sydenham Borough Council recommended that “Second, Third and Fourth streets be respectively named Sandyford, Battersea Gladstone streets, these being the names under which they are dedicated to the public, and which were chosen by the first residents in those streets. St. John’s Training College at Battersea, England, was founded in 1844 to supply superior teachers for Church of England schools. It had associations with the Canterbury Association. A former principal, Thomas Jackson was, briefly, Bishop-Designate of Lyttelton. Ex-student John Bilton was sent out as a schoolmaster and the Cathedral organist designate. Battersea Street is in an area where a number of streets have associations with the Church of England.

A lot of information from the library website and there is nothing that I can add.

This is in the business area of Sydenham and many of the businesses are connected to the car industry. Still a couple of empty sections and there is a pub at the Colombo St end. Nothing stood out for me here.

Old Stone Lane – too new to be on the library website. Found information from council meeting dated 15/04/2018. Caroline (Caro) Murray formally Wilson who is granddaughter of John Wilson Cracroft suggested names for the new subdivision based on her childhood memories. Named because this lane leads direct to the Old Stone House. This had houses that are still being built and there didn’t seem to be an entrance to the Old Stone House from the lane. If there is one I couldn’t find it.

Dalweny Lane – Named after Dalweny, the Cracroft Wilson’s family farm in Amberley. The last 30 sections of the Cracroft Wilson family estate, at 60 Worsleys Road, were auctioned on 8 December 2007. Named in 2004.

A small amount of information from the library website. Nothing that I can add here. A small private lane that went to 2 or 3 modern houses. One was what I call toilet block style.