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Albion Cottages- West Street. Formed by the division of Albion House. Listed once as 6 cottages but looks more like 3 in all other records. According to some references it was actually built as three in the first place.
Alma Passage Off Dean Street. No longer exists. Adjacent to the Alma public house.
Arzees Lane - ran from Chapel Str to the cemetery area, bordering Rookery Park. Aka Rookery Lane and Lammas Lane. Hawes Lane refers to its continuation along the side of the cemetery towards what we call Oak Tree Rd. A foot path, more or less official!
Ashurst- a house Station Road.
Ashleigh- house Cromwell Gardens paired with Lynwood, and later also in Spinfield Lane.
Ashton Villa- Wycombe Road. Extant but not outwardly named and knocked into the house next door.
Barada Cottages /Barrada Cottages - Dean Street. I believe they were in portion of Rd near Primrose Lea. Demolished.
Beaufort Cottage- A house with entrance from what is now Beaumont Rise. Backs onto Claremont Road. Extant. Post about the Smith family who lived there in Victorian times here
Bencombe Farm- entrance to Marlow Bottom. Extant buildings but a brewery now not a working farm. History and list of occupiers here
Berwick Buildings- small row of brick terraced houses in Berwick Road. Extant but no longer collectively named.
Berwyn Appartments- Glade Road.
Beulah Cottages- Queen's Road. Demolished.
Bokpara- a house Little Marlow Road.
Bridge Street / Old Bridge Street - occur in some mostly Victorian sources as alternative names for St Peter's Street, known before that as Duck Lane in part.
Brook Street / Brooks Street- now Station Road but was then of shorter length in terms of development. Has also been called Railway Road, and Strong Beer Lane before the station was built. Can also be referred to as St Peter's Street - the road to which it originally curved around into with little onward road beyond that turning. This is how the 1843 tithe map refers to the street. And a few early sources refer to it as Pound Lane, (it was the location of the Pound, near Marlow Place) which exists as a separate road now but the two roads would run into each other crossing the High Street.
Burnham Villa- Glade Road.
Cambridge Terrace- row of houses in Cambridge Road. Extant but no longer collectively named.
Cannon's Row- row of six cottages owned by George Cannon at his death. Located in Mill Road. After George's death name changed to Platts Row presumably because it was adjacent to and formerly part of Platts farm. Post about the history of Cannon's Row and its people here
Carlton Villa- Station Road.
Cemetery Road- early name for Wethered Road, which leads to the cemetery. Other early names include Church Rd although see Chapel End below.
Chapel End- Chapel Street, part furthest away from the town (mostly) in 1800s records, less precise earlier. On rare occasions also is called Church Street, although this can also refer post 1852 to Wethered Rd.
Church Passage- between what is now the Causeway and St Peter's Street. Properties here sometimes refered to as being located at Thameside or St. Peters Str.
Church Street- on rare occasions Chapel Street is called this. Many uses also can be found for what is now Wethered Rd getting this name as it lead to Holy Trinity church.
Cleeveville- a house New Town Road.
The Cottage - large house off Oxford Road, previously Oxford Lane. There was also a Oxford Cottage nearby but much smaller at 3 bedrooms as opposed to 8-9. Aka Quoiting House.
Crescent Cottages- Duke's Place.
Creswell /Cresswell Cottages- usually refers to what is now called Creswell Row, off Cambridge Road. More usually known as Creswell's Row in the past. However the Victorian Cres(s)well family also owned 4 cottages in Cambridge Rd near the gas works and 8 in Queens Rd on the south side so Creswell cottages could also refer to these.
The Croft- off Henley Road. Original name (1700s) Gildernscroft. Later called Townsend Cottage or The Croft. In more recent years has reverted to an approximation of the original and is called "Gyldernscroft".
Croft Cottage- Pound Lane. Extant.
Dean Lane, Dene Lane, Deen Lane Dean Street, in the 16 and 1700s. Was also called "Dean Lane Alias Well End" or "Dean Street Alias Well End" or Well End Street up to the mid 1800s. Not to be confused with the hamlet of Well End near Little Marlow/ Bourne End, which was also part of Great Marlow parish. Dean Street continued into what we now call Munday Dean Lane, which can also be referred to as just Dean Lane in later 1800s records.
Duck Lane- now St Peters Street, occasionally referred to as Bridge Street or Old Bridge Street in the 1800s. Duck Lane and St Peter's Street were however used at the same time, with Duck Lane in use for the river end, and St Peter's Street for the Parsonage end, also encompassing Marlow Place.
Elmcroft- house Little Marlow Road.
Elm Villas - Portland Gardens
Fairfield Villa- Station Road.
Fair View House- Glade Road. Maintains original name.
Fernlea- a house Beaumont Rise.
Fern Villa- Station Road. N.B there is also The Ferns at Little Marlow. Also The Ferns/Fern House, Glade Rd. Fern Villa was used as private short term lodging house pre WW1 under Mrs Durrell. "Terms moderate".
Four Cedars- a house in Portland Gardens.
The Gardens- Row of houses set back from the roadway on Henley Road, just before Gyldernscroft on the opposite side of the road. They have unusually long front gardens. Extant but not collectively named today.
Garrison House / The Garrison- a reasonably substantial house existing by the mid 1790s in Gun Lane as was, now called Trinity Road. It got its name from its former use as a military Garrison in the 1770s. The building was later allegedly the laundry building for the Royal Military College. After that institution left the Garrison was sub-divided into tenements and let to the poor. The Garrison was also used for the general area around the house, referring to its former grounds.
Gas Alley- colloquial name for Marefield Passage as reported in 1903 court case. No longer exists.
Globe House- nothing to do with the modern building of that name in the industrial estate. Rather, a long demolished house on the High Street. The entrance arch to Liston Court shopping area marks the site of it's previous own side entrance arch which dated from at least the 1780s, sadly demolished. The house lands were later used for New Court house.
Glynde Cottage - Glade Rd
Goblin's Pitts- seems to be off Pound Lane, with properties in West Street especially near Potlands said to back onto this area in 1500s documents.
Gun Lane or Gunne Lane- now Trinity Road. Also Gounne Lane. History of this street here
Gun Place- off Gun Lane above. This address no longer exists, nor any buildings that were in it. Chapel Street side of the lane close to the boundary with the Rookery gardens (which are now a park).
Harleford- Early spelling of Harleyford. One of Marlow's manors.
Hatches Row- no longer exists. Row of eleven houses off Dean Street. Built by Hatch family, and sold off by Mrs Hatch in 1844. Was between Cambridge Rd and Queens Rd, nearer the former.
The Hayes- early name for Hayes Place and a little behind it.
Hill View Cottages- Queen's Road. Two cottages. Left hand side if coming in from Dean Street. Quite close to that end of the road. Demolished.
The Homestead- a cottage Newtown Road, a house in West Street, also a large Edwardian built house of unknown location. Very generic Victorian / 1900s name so other incarnations of this are possible.
Horns Inn Yard- by the Horns pub, Chapel Street. Also Horns Lane which was a tiny group of small cottages technically in Great Marlow Parish, near Booker. Mostly the abodes of farm labourers working at Clay Lane/ Limmers farms etc.
Ivy Cottage- Station Road.
Jubilee Cottages- Newtown Road. Extant.
Jubilee Terrace- Dean Street. Demolished. 9 houses. Owned in 1890s by Mr E Riley namesake of Riley recreation ground.
Kensington Cottage - Glade Rd, extant.
The Kentons AKA Kenton Villas- 4 houses in Glade Road. (2 pairs of semi detached cottages) Two survive. Kenton House was adjacent to this but detached and it's address may be given as Victoria Road .
Kimberley House- Newtown Road. Later a shop. Can also be seen recorded as Kimberlea.
Laburnum Villas- Glade Road.
Langley's Pitt- Behind Hatches Row, Dean Street. Vanished.
The Laurels- Beaumont Rise.
Lee Cottage- Victoria Road.
Leek House- Glade Road.
Leighton House- Glade Road. Extant. Former school. History here
Limbrook- house by St Peter's Street and a wharf near it. Not the same as Lymbrook although both probably inspired by the same source - see Thames Lawn.
The Limes- Glade Road. Post about this house here. Not the same as Lime House.
Linbrook Gardens- a house Mill Road.
Linton Villa- Wycombe Road. Extant but not labelled.
Lyle House- Glade Road. Used as a Victorian private school for a while, and when the school moved to Station Rd, it took the Lyle House School name with it at first.
Marefield- area between modern Queens Road and Cambridge Road, something of a warren. A rough neighborhood in it's centre, not so much at fringes.
Marefield Place- off Queens Road. Maps show it to seemingly only have foot access. No part of it exists but modern Marefield Rd is roughly in the spot. Aka Marefield Passage.
Melrose Villa- Glade Road. Also semi detached house called Melrose West Street.
Mill Lane- now approximately Mill Road (which has also been called in part Platts Road). Also I have one 1800s reference to what is now Glade Road where that road, not then built up, is called "the road to Marlow Mills" so don't discount that possibility of reference.
Model Cottage- Duke's Place.
Newfields- house Beaumont Rise.
New Road- briefly in their early development Newtown Road, Claremont Gardens, Beaumont Rise, Queens Road and Claremont Road were all referred to as this. Claremont Rd kept the name the longest. It was common everywhere for roads to receive proper names only after reasonable housing development had occurred in them.
The New Town- Newtown Road area, including nearby early development in Little Marlow Road, not just Newtown Road itself originally. That road was first called Straight Horse Road and was a created service road meant to aid the development of that area. E.G Holland Rd may be called New Town early on. Also an area off Spinfield Lane beyond Spinfield Lodge on one 1830s map.
Oxenford Lane- earliest known name for Oxford Lane, now Oxford Road.
Oxford Cottage- In Oxford Road. NOT THE SAME AS THE COTTAGE, which was near it in Oxford Road.
Oxford House- Oxford Road house.
Oxford Lane- originally Oxenford Lane, now Oxford Road.
Oxford Terrace- Row of houses, Oxford Road. Left hand side if coming from West Street end of the road.
Panton Villas- in Glade Road. Two houses. Extant. Dated 1865. Post about the Nutt family who lived there here
Park Villas- Portland Gardens and Wycombe Road! The Wycombe Road ones had at least 4 houses in them.
Parkfields "New Town"
Parsonage Farm- off what we now call Station Road just past the entrance to St Peter's Street, near Marlow Place. Built over.
Platts Row/ Platts Road- cottages in what is now Mill Road (previously Mill Lane) but in the cottages' early days they could have a vague address. Originally called Cannons Row. Often given sub address Station Road which Mill Road leads off. Extant. The name comes from the vanished Platts Farm on that spot.
Potlands or Potland's Alley, rarely also Portland's Lane or Portland's Alley- now usually rendered Portlands Alley. No longer a street address but still a right of way. Very early records of Potlands seem possibly to refer to a wider area. Portland Gardens was an Edwardian development comprising Portland, Park and Elm Villas at first, partly in what was previously known as Mr Hewett's or Ralf's meadow. More about the area here
Prospect Row- usually referring to first houses in what is now Prospect Road off Queens Road. This was also called Marefield Place early on (although this more usually referred to housing in Marefield Passage where the modern Marefield Rd is) before morphing first to Prospect Place and then Prospect Road. However I have seen two references to cottages in Wycombe Road near where there was once Prospect House as "The row of Prospect Cottages". See here for a post featuring featuring some residents
Providence Place- off Dean Street, a little after what is now Trinity Road going away from town, before you reached the Nags Head. Led to an early Baptist place of worship and a few other buildings. Aka Providence Court.
Quarrydale- house Newtown Road. Quarrydale estate had frontages on Westhorpe and Holland Rds.
Quarry View - boarding house, New Town, New Town Road and surrounding areas. Built as workman's cottages circa 1896 then knocked together and re-fronted to make large boarding house. Suffered severe fire 1902.
Quarry Wood House- not to be confused with Quarry Wood Cottage or Quarry Wood Hall etc. A house in Station Road, Dedmere Rd end, also let as "apartments", and in use as a school. On the corner of Victoria Rd.
Quoiting Place or The Quoiting Place- now Quoiting Square. Common early spelling is Coiting.
Railway Road- previously Brook(s) Street or Strong Beer Lane. It became known as Railway Road briefly after Marlow Station was erected before the name Station Road stuck instead.
The Rookery- demolished house off Chapel Street . See my post The Atkinsons of the Rookery here
Rose Cottages- Newtown Road. Not to be confused with Rose Villa. A later Rose Cottage could be found in Station Rd/Dedmere Road.
Rose Villa- Institute Road. 2. Beaumont Rise (latter is more accurate description to us now) 3. Chapel Street (Edwardian) Next to Rookery lodge, some evidence of a property bearing this name on the other side of Chapel Street too. Also earlier Rose Villas (1870's) at uncertain location, possibly Glade Road.
Schoolhouse Close- off West Street. Land not a street address.
Soho Terrace- small row of houses together in Beaumont Rise. Extant. Post about the railway staff who used to lodge there here
South View- house Little Marlow Road. Not in Southview Road.
Spinfield Lodge- early and longest serving name for Spinfield House, a demolished property in the Spinfield area of Marlow. Modern replacement dates from 1938. Not to be confused with The Lodge, Spinfield which was that property's gardener's lodge. Occasionally known as Spinfield Villa or Spinfield Park in first half 19thc. History of the house here
Spittalcrofts- near Lane End, and about 2 and half miles from Marlow. Spittal Croft farm is near Red Barn Farm.
Springfield- Henley Road. And later Station Rise. Also common "corrected" misspelling of Spinfield Lodge/ House.
Stanley House- Little Marlow Road. Extant.
Star Meadow- now built over. Off Wycombe Road.
St Peter's Court- off St Peter's Street. One of the most deprived areas of Marlow in the 1800s. Plagued by disease because of dirty river water contamination of wells and sewage problems, it was demolished as a mini slum in the 1870s. Post about this sad place here
Straight Horse Road - Original name for Newtown Road, which was created as a service road. Formalised in Marlow Enclosure award 1853. Became New Town Rd 1902.
Strong Beer Acre- bordered Station Road. Can include Mill Rd.
Strong Beer Lane- Station Road, but perhaps only the section nearest the station with the rest called Brook/Brooks Street. Pound Lane is also in early common use for what is now Station Rd, and a continuation of old Pound Lane across the High Street.
St Thomas's Street- used as an alternative name for Spittal Street, specifically for section containing The Greyhound. Some sources use both Spittal Street and St. Thomas Str in the same document, for different parts of the street.
Sun Dial Cottage- original name of Dial Cottage. Near the parish church on the Causeway.
Sunlight Cottages- row of cottages by Klondyke.
Sunnycroft- a house in Institute Road, still bears this name.
Sunnybank(s)- house by the river, near the bridge. Nowhere near the modern street address Sunnybank.
Sunnyside- a house Bovingdon Green.
The Swallows- a house Little Marlow Road, new name for Prospect House. Demolished.
Thames Bank- today refers to only one riverside house in Marlow but in the 1800s and early 1900s this was both the name of that particular house AND a address used by nearby riverside properties in the area of Marlow Lock. Note too: Thames Bank house became known as Thames Lawn after 1914 or later having pinched the name of another house close to it which burnt down in 1897, and though rebuilt did not reclaim its name for long. (This replacement for the original Thames Lawn by the lock is now named Three Gables) Both version of Thames Lawn could be referred to as "Thames Lawn, Thames Bank, Great Marlow ". How's that for confusion? Known as Lymbrook from at least 1869, however the old name of Thames Bank also remained in use. Lingering use of Lymbrook also remains even after the house became Thames Lawn, with last use found in 1939.
Thames Villa- Station Road.
Thrift Cottages- in Oxford Road which was previously called Oxford Lane. Cottages still exist. Next to Crown & Anchor.
Town Farm- Off West Street. Some buildings exist but it is not now a farm. Town End Farm was at Chapel Street, and there is also a Town Farm in Bisham.
Townsend Cottage- much bigger than a cottage! Now Gyldernscroft. Previously also known as The Croft. Original name was Gildernscroft (1600s).
Trinity Cottages- by Holy Trinity church off what was then Gun Lane, now Trinity Road. Backing on to what is now Wethered Road. The cottages predate the church so must have had an earlier name. Extant.
Trinity Place- Previously referred to as Gun Place. Off what was then Gun Lane and is now Trinity Road. No buildings of Trinity Place exist. It's a car park!
Valley View- house Little Marlow Road.
Vine Cottage- Chapel Street (early) and Glade Rd (extant). Not to be confused with Vine House.
Vine House - Chapel Str/Dean Street corner. Demolished. Aka Grape House.
Weir Cottage- down by riverside near the lock and weir. Weir House is in St. Peter's Street.
Well End Street- Dean Street in the 1600s to the mid 1800s, though the most usual early name for the Street was Dean Lane, or Dean Lane alias Well End and in later times Dean Street.
West End- West Street, Borlase School end. Can include Red Pits, Henley Rd.
Wisteria House- house West Street on Potlands Alley side.
Wood Lea / Woodlea- house Station Road. Also given to modern house Munday Dean.
Wood View- on Winter Hill. 2. in Station Rd as Woodview. 3. Wood View House - Beaumont Rise.
Workhouse Lane- what is now Berwick Road and the lower part of Munday Dean Lane. It was indeed the road to the Workhouse.
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