ABBOTT CLOSE | |
ARAGON WALK | Named after Catherine of Aragon |
BARNATO CLOSE | Named after Joel Woolf Barnato (1895-1948), winner of the Le Mans 24-hour racethree times in succession (1928-1930) |
BEECH CLOSE | |
BERRYS LANE | Former location of Berry’s Garage |
BINFIELD CLOSE | New road built in 2013, off Binfield Road. Houses now occupy the site of the former St Thomas More RC Church |
BINFIELD ROAD | Named after Binfield House |
BLACK PRINCE CLOSE | Named after the Black Prince, Edward of Woodstock, the eldest son of King Edward III, and First Duke of Cornwall (1330-1376) |
BREWERY LANE | Formerly Butchers Lane (possibly named after a one-time owner of Vanners). The name reflects the fact that Byfleet's brewery was once close to the start of this road, actually on the site of what is now The Willows. |
BRIDGE CLOSE | Adjacent to Plough Bridge |
BRUCE CLOSE | Named after Lady Magdalen Bruce, who established a Charity for ‘The relief and comfort of the honest, poor, painful people and such as were past labour, dwelling and abiding within the parish of Byfleet’. Lady Bruce's Charity held a few acres of agricultural land for the use of the poor in general, as bequeathed in a will dating from 1635. It was incorporated into Byfleet United Charities in 1905 |
CAILLARD ROAD | Named after Sir Vincent Caillard, director of Vickers. The son of a County Court Judge, he became a Royal Engineer. At Woolwich, he had been a gold medallist. He was a composer, author, spiritualist, diplomat, financier, farmer and polemicist for tariff reform. He went to Vickers from the Ottoman Public Debt Council in 1898. In 1914 he negotiated an important contract for the reconstruction of the Turkish Fleet, dockyards and arsenals. Retired from Vickers, August 1927. |
CAMPBELL CLOSE | Named after Sir Malcolm Campbell |
CANADA ROAD | The company that developed this estate and built the factories in this area off Oyster Lane was the Fromson Construction Company of Canada. B W Fromson acquired the agricultural land in 1952, building fabrication workshops initially for the manufacture of steel frames for aircraft hangars for the Admiralty throughout Great Britain. |
CATHERINE CLOSE | Named after Catherine of Aragon |
CELTIC ROAD | |
CHERTSEY ROAD | Originally went as far as the railway arch |
CHESTNUT WALK |
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CHURCH ROAD | Originally named Church Lane. 25 houses built by W F Summers in the 1930s |
CHUTERS CLOSE | Located opposite the shop that was formerly Chuter’s Newsagents, and on the site of Chuter's Garage. |
CIRCLE GARDENS | Named in 1937. |
CLOCK HOUSE CLOSE | Originally the closest minor road to the Clock House, subsequently superseded by the developments in Rivermead, Grasmere Way, and Millmead. Houses built by E Clarke & Sons of Addlestone. |
Conker Arch | See Murray's Lane |
COOMBE WAY | |
CORNWALL AVENUE | Named after the Earl of Cornwall – See Gaveston Close or Duke of Cornwall – see Black Prince Close. Piers Gaveston, close friend of Edward II, was created the first Earl of Cornwall |
DARTNELL PARK | Area originally part of Byfleet and Ham Haw Commons before they were enclosed in 1805. In the early 19th century the land was used as nursery grounds, and by the 1870s the area was thickly wooded. Following the opening of Byfleet and Woodham railway station, the land was developed with large expensive houses. In 1887 43 plots were offered for sale, none of which were less than 1½ acres, with some as large as 3½ acres. Another sale took place in May 1899, including 58 “good building plots”. The development was promoted with its own tennis and boat club. |
DAWSON ROAD | Named after Sir (Arthur) Trevor Dawson, director of Vickers, born 1866. Began life in the navy as a young gunnery specialist showing both academic and practical brilliance. In 1892, he was selected for special duty as experimental officer at Woolwich. In 1896 he was invited to join Vickers by Albert Vickers. He was described as being very tall, formidably charming, an athlete and bon vivant, and non-pompous. From 1900 he was in effective control of Vickers. He was knighted in 1909, and became a Baronet in 1920. Became Vice Chairman of Vickers in 1921. |
DERISLEY CLOSE | Named after family of butchers, whose farm entrance and butcher’s shop were located here. |
DIGBY WAY | Located on site of Digby’s Stores |
DUNFEE WAY | Named after racing driver, Clive Dunfee, killed whilst racing at Brooklands in 1932 |
EDEN GROVE ROAD | |
EDWARD II AVENUE | King Edward II (1284-1327), 4th son of King Edward I |
ELMTREE CLOSE |
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FARM CLOSE | Houses built on the site of Foxlake Farm and Binfield Hall |
FERNEY COURT | See below |
FERNEY ROAD | Named after Ferney Cottage, the house on the corner of Chertsey Road and Ferney Road. |
FOXLAKE ROAD | Named after Foxlake (originally Foxlick) Farm |
FULLERTON CLOSE | Sir James Fullerton completed the rebuilding of the Manor House, after Queen Anne died in 1619 |
FULLERTON DRIVE | See above |
FULLERTON ROAD | See above |
FULLERTON WAY | See above |
GAVESTON CLOSE | Named after Piers Gaveston, a favourite of King Edward II, who created him Earl of Cornwall |
GLEBE GARDENS | Houses built in the glebe area of the Rectory garden |
GODLEY ROAD | Named after the ‘Hundred’ in which Byfleet was situated |
GRANVILLE CLOSE | On the site of Granville Cottage |
GRASMERE WAY | Named after a large house ‘Grasmere’, but not on the same site |
GREEN LANE CLOSE | One of the earliest roads in the village |
HART ROAD | Named by Woking UDC in 1934 when the road was developed by Scott & Co as a turning off Brewery Lane. Later extended to join Rectory Lane |
HIGH ROAD | Formerly known as ‘Byfleet Main Road’. Permission for 8 shops along Hopfield Parade granted to Smith Brothers of West Byfleet, September 1937 |
HOPFIELD AVENUE | Built on the hop fields of Byfleet Brewery |
KINGS AVENUE | Houses built by W G Tarrant. Road named at his request. |
KINGS HEAD LANE | The Kings Head pub was on the corner of Chertsey Road - demolished in 2011, replaced by Kings Terrace |
LAKE CLOSE | Located on site of former Lake House |
LEYBOURNE AVENUE | Henry de Leybourne held Byfleet Manor at the end of the 13th century |
LEYBOURNE CLOSE | See above |
LOXLEY CLOSE | Small road, off Church Road, comprising houses built in ???? on the site of Loxley House? |
MAGDALEN CLOSE | Named after Lady Magdalen Bruce, who established a charity for the poor of Byfleet in the 17th century. |
MAGDALEN CRESCENT | See above |
MAITLAND CLOSE (WB) | Presumably named after a major local landowner featured in the Inclosure, imaginatively named Maitland Maitland? |
MANOR CRESCENT | Built on part of Manor Farm in the 1960s |
MILL LANE | Leads to the Mill (and the Manor House) |
MILLMEAD | |
MOWBRAY AVENUE | The builder of most of the properties in this road came from Melton Mowbray [according to Howard Cook]. Some houses built by Smith Bros of West Byfleet |
MURRAYS LANE | Robert Hay Murray was a one-time owner of West Hall, which this road links to Rectory Lane |
OLD AVENUE, WB | This road was laid out on the land of Sheerwater Farm in the mid-1920s, and was the original Sheerwater Estate. In 1935 “superb houses” were offered from £625, with weekly repayments of 17/3 per week. |
OLD ORCHARD | |
OYSTER LANE | Origin uncertain, but it is alleged that oyster shells were found during the construction of the road. However, in a letter dated 5th December, 1777, Mr William Welby, of Temple, London, wrote to a relative, Mr William Earle Welby, of Allington, near Grantham, Lincolnshire: “I am favoured with your two letters of 28th and 30th November, pursuant to your order. A barrel of Byfleet Oysters went by Turner’s [?] Waggon on Wednesday last, and I shall continue to send a barrel of them once a fortnight till the beginning of March.” |
PARK CLOSE | Cul-de-sac at the west end of Winern Glebe, backing on to the recreation ground |
PARVIS ROAD | May be a corruption of Parish(es) Road The written statement to the Enclosure Award Act of 1811 states: “Road No 1 shall be 40ft wide and the bridge shall be (spelt) Parrishes (i.e. belonging to the Parishioners?). In the mid-19th century the spelling was Parvis’s, and subsequently the spelling became Parvis. (Shown as Road 1 on the Byfleet & Weybridge Enclosure map of 19th August, 1811). Note though that in the 17th Century there was a Mr Parvis who left Byfleet for the USA. |
PETERSHAM AVENUE | Part of the former Petersham Estate |
PETERSHAM CLOSE | See above |
QUEENS AVENUE | Name approved by Woking Urban District Council due to its proximity to the Queen’s Head Hotel, November 1935. Houses built by W G Tarrant |
RECTORY CLOSE | Turning off Rectory Lane, but not near the Rectory. Developed by Thomas Higgs, who offered a 15-foot strip of land to the Council as an extension to the Recreation round, February 1937 |
RECTORY LANE | Formerly Workhouse Lane |
RIVERMEAD | |
ROSEMOUNT PARADE | The parade of shops in West Byfleet on the Old Woking Road, opposite Waitrose. Presumably named after the Essential Oil Factory once nearby |
ROYSTON AVENUE | On site of former Royston Chase Hotel |
ROYSTON ROAD | See above |
RUTSON ROAD | Named after Mrs Rutson, one-time owner of the Manor House |
SANWAY CLOSE | Area originally called Sandyways or Sandways, due to presence of a sandpit. |
SANWAY ROAD | See above. There were two laundries here - the main one on the site of the current Sanway Stores and the other roughly where the playground of the disused school is on the corner with Magdalen Cres |
SPENCE AVENUE | Named after Joseph Spence, historian and poet (1699-1768), drowned in the ornamental waters of his garden in the village |
Stoop's Lane | Named after the Stoop family, one time owners of West Hall - see also Murray's Lane |
STREAM CLOSE | On the site of the former Stream Cottages |
STRINGHAMS LANE | Provided access from Parvis Road to the allotments of parcels of land, opposite Queen’s Avenue. (Shown as Road 14 on the Byfleet & Weybridge Enclosure map of 19th August, 1811) |
STUDLAND ROAD | Houses built by W Pleece & Son |
SUMMER CLOSE | On the former market garden site, off Mill Lane |
TEWKESBURY CLOSE | Built on the site of Tewkesbury Vinery |
THE CEDARS | |
THE MALTINGS | Reference to the nearby Byfleet Brewery, a turning off Brewery Lane |
THE MOORINGS | Small close with a few houses built on the site of the Byfleet Boat House used by residents of Dartnell Park |
THE PAVILLIONS | New development off Kings Head Lane, on the site of the tennis courts at the former Vickers sports field |
THE WILLOWS | |
THE YEWS | Row of town houses in High Road, facing the fish and chip shop next to the Village Hall |
ULWYN AVENUE | Ulwin the Saxon owned land in the village, possibly as a tenant of Chertsey Abbey, in the 11th century |
VISCOUNT GARDENS | Named after the Vickers Viscount aeroplane built at Brooklands |
WAKEFIELD CLOSE | |
WALNUT TREE LANE | |
WEY BARTON | Site of a large house of the same name |
WEYMEDE | Site of a house of the same name |
WEYSIDE CLOSE | |
WINERN GLEBE | Named after the builder of the houses and his wife – WINifred and ERNest Griffin. Planning permission granted, subject to Drainage conditions, April 1937 |
WINTERSELLS ROAD | Site of former Wintersell’s Farm, demolished for construction of Brooklands race track. |
Workhouse Lane | Now Rectory Lane. Originally named after the Workhouse, which was on the site of Stream Close. |
YORK CLOSE | See below |
YORK ROAD | Possibly named after the Duke of York, of Oatlands Palace, who owned the Manors of Weybridge and Byfleet during the early 19th century. |