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Saturday, July 17, 2021

More Where in Marlow Was? Part 2

Avenel - house, Cromwell Gardens (see below) Advertised in 1909 as "away from motor dust and noise". Rent: £50 per annum. Built by May 1902.

Avonel - house, Station Road.

Baden Villa - Glade Road. 

Beaulieu - Glade Road, used as apartments. Mrs Emma Bonnett is one charmingly named landlady 1902-4. 

Beckett's Row/ Beckett Row - few cottages in Dean Street. 

Bloom Corner - farmhouse (or sometimes used as such), off Gossmore Lane. 1908 - "better known as the Riverwoods Estate."

Carson's Lane - described as located near the Hand and Flowers in 1883, it's probably Spinfield Lane or one leading off it. Carson owned Spinfield house. 

Coiting Place - not infrequent early spelling of Quoiting Place / Square

Eastwood - Institute Road

Eothen - houseBeaumont Rise

Gravel Pit House - Dean Street. The gravel pit was located in area between Berwick and Seymour Court Rds,  now filled with housing. 

Holland Road - still extant but a house that would be given this street address now may have been described as located simply in "New Town" in the past. 

Hospital Lane - Crown Lane, early alternative name. 

Ingledene - Claremont Road now, may be addressed as Claremont Gardens Estate in the past.  

Institute Rise - early name for Station Rise, used alongside Junction Road - the latter had however also been used as a name for Beaumont Rise. 

Junction Road - Early name for Beaumont Rise, and the one Marlow Urban District Council recommended should be adopted as the official name for this then new road, in December 1899. It was however also used later for what is now Station Rise, in the early days of that street's development AND was in use for Claremont Road ditto before the name Claremont Road was officially adopted in 1901. 

Keswick House. High Street (No. 25 but numbering changed since then) and also another in Beaumont Rise.

Lily Cottage - Claremont Road, originally address given as New Road before the eventual official name of Claremont Road took off. NB New Road has been used for several newly laid out roads in Marlow on a temporary basis.  2. Glade Road. May in fact be the same as above, as Glade Road was given as address for many homes actually in nearby places in this era as it was a more established residential area, and development around it was more piecemeal.

Lilyville.  Dedmere Road. 

Marlow Lane - usually used for portion of Munday Dean Lane that's at Munday Dean itself. 

Merefleet / Mereflett- Beaumont Rise.

Myrtle Cottage- Beaumont Rise.

New Road Hill - brief use for Seymour Court hill, or modern Lane End road which becomes Seymour Court Rd town end. Recorded 1894, 1895. 

Oaks, The - Institute Road, appartments. 

Oaklea Cottage - West Street. 

Quarrydale Road - off Newtown Road. Address may also be given as New Town or Marlow Fields. 

Rossendale - Glade Road. Apartments and used for summer season lets.  

Spittal Lane - alternative name for Crown Lane mainly pre 1860's. 

Station Villas - Dedmere Road. Edwardian. On the same side as the station, the first group of terraced houses you pass after Station Approach when heading away from the town. 

St Joseph's  - house, Institute Road

St Peters Cottage - in Station Road, not St Peters Street. 

Sycamore House - house, opposite old Post Office in West Street used as a school for girls by Mrs Ann Winter 1860's and  private lodging house 1875- 1901, under Mr and Mrs Jacob Ransom, then as a shop 1902. See also The Sycamores. 

The Sycamores - house, near Marlow Lock. Often let to summer visitors. Not the same as Sycamore House but often confused with it. In Mill Rd now, but may be described as located at Thames Bank or on Thames Lawn in the past. 

Thornton House - Claremont Gardens

Valetta - Cambridge Road

 

The first part of Where in Marlow Was.. can be found here and parts no 3 here, no 4 here, Five here


Compiled by Charlotte Day with some research also by Kathryn Day.

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