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 to brush up on their geography.

Most houses were built in 2010 with a couple built a bit later. A pleasant street and for some reason all the letterboxes were at the beginning of the street.

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 from the library website and Gosforth means ford frequented by geese. My book A Dictionary of British Names has been very useful for the Westmorland streets. I have visited the UK Gosforth and found three geocaches in a forest on the outskirts of the village.

This street only has three houses built in the last couple of years. There are still empty sections on this street. Good views here but the houses were ugly.

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 name. Only 5 houses here plus some empty sections. I only liked one house as the rest were ugly but great views. There is also a memorial plaque to Colin Francis on a stone wall at the beginning of the street.

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 of entries in Papers Past and one was a death notice. The other entry from 1983 was a name change for the cul de sac Woodside Common to Clovelly Place. Clovelly Place is a tiny street that runs off Woodside Common. Only 8 houses here and the one that caught my eye was huge. I walked up Woodside Common to this street and there was a horrible smell near the corner of these two streets. It was a chemical type of smell so I walked very fast so that it wouldn’t affect me but will try to remember to use my eye drops tonight just in case.

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, née Wood, who is a granddaughter of William Derisley Wood (1824-1904). One family milled the flour, the other baked bread. Named in 1999.

A reasonable amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name of the street. I covered William Derisley Wood fairly fully when I wrote up Wood Lane. I notice that I didn’t write up much about the Boon family when I wrote up Boon St.

The houses here are huge and were built between 2000 to 2018. This street is on the opposite side of Cashmere Rd to all the other streets in the suburb of Westmorland. It wasn’t easy to cross Cashmere Rd to get to this street as it is near the corner of Cashmere Rd and Hendersons Rd.

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 amount of information from the library website. Wikipedia page describes Blencathra as a hill yet it is high enough to be classified as a mountain. It was known as Saddleback for many years but Alfred Wainwight encouraged the use of it’s original name of Blencathra which means summit of the seat-like mountain.

I thought that I had walked this street yesterday but somehow managed to miss it. The houses here were built in the 1990s and they are huge. I suspect that they are well beyond my budget. My map showed a walkway through to Cumbria Lane but it took me a few moments to find as it looked like a private driveway.

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 in 2015.

A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name of the street. It would be almost the only street in this suburb not named after a place name in Cumbria.

The houses here were built between 2015 and 2021 and I didn’t particularly like them. A few toilet block style of houses here but good views from this street.

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 and I did walk it but it was clear that outsiders weren’t welcome. Tempted to hide a geocache here just to be annoying.

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 places in Cumbria. Caldberg Moor is next to Caldbergh and means cold hill.

The houses didn’t stand out for me but there are good views from here. There is a walkway from this street to Worsleys Road.

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 cold stream. Only 4 houses here built in 1990s. I didn’t actually walk this street as it was very narrow with no footpath and seemed to just be a driveway.