Etymology Addiction - Brixton Street Names

[Moonchild]

Not getting any luck with Surrey on 1871.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Not getting any luck with Surrey on 1871.

Strange. Maybe the census taker got too pissed to fill in the details

 

[Etymologist]

And also around that area (Slade Gardens):

Robert Slade's part of the 23 acres which he divided with Randle Jackson is now covered by Ingleton, Halstead, and Thornton Streets and
Ingleborough Road, named after places in Yorkshire where the family also owned property

So many, so brief, so clear. Wonderful.

 

[boohoo]

Did anyone mention that Elm Park is named after a house called the Elms...

 

[boohoo]

Groveway was Grove road and is named after a house that stood there called Fir Grove

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Did anyone mention that Elm Park is named after a house called the Elms...

That was at the Tulse Hill end wasn't it?

or not?

 

[Moonchild]

The Elms is shown as a big house on Tulse Hill in the 1862 map in Teuchter's lovely pdf.

That ties in with the use of old villa names for road names in the Hayter estate on the other side of Brixton Hill.

The estate sale particulars SC00678 detail what was included in the "lot". Beverstone and Baytrees are both now roads, as is Hayter itself.

I probably ought to do some work today but this is much more interesting.

 

[Martin H]

My aunt always said that the earliest mention of Brigeston was when King Cnut (Canute) sailed up the River Effra until it was no longer navigable. The Effra actually rises in Norwood & flows along the course of Elder Rd & then along Norwood Rd. The 'trickle' may be a tributary but can't actually be the river as that's in the valley, along Dulwich Road. I'd always thought that it flowed under Effra Rd itself, but it certainly goes along the High Street to the end of Stockwell Road & then flows down the road. It comes out into the Thames just east of Vauxhall Bridge, ouzing out of the pipe & dropping down into the Thames.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

My aunt always said that the earliest mention of Brigeston was when King Cnut (Canute) sailed up the River Effra until it was no longer navigable. The Effra actually rises in Norwood & flows along the course of Elder Rd & then along Norwood Rd. The 'trickle' may be a tributary but can't actually be the river as that's in the valley, along Dulwich Road. I'd always thought that it flowed under Effra Rd itself, but it certainly goes along the High Street to the end of Stockwell Road & then flows down the road. It comes out into the Thames just east of Vauxhall Bridge, ouzing out of the pipe & dropping down into the Thames.

Some stuff here:

The River Effra

Anyone else noticed these. This one is on Rattray road. Are there others? Thanks

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and here

London's little rivers and streams

Which ones do you know and which have you walked along? Excluding underground streams, can think of: The Ravensbourne and its tributary the Quaggy, the Wandle, Beverley Brook, the Brent, Dollis Stream, Silk Stream, River Lea, Pymme's Brook (which joins the Lea), various little channels off...

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