Effra Beaumont Rise.

Effra is a river in London and have its name to a house in Beaumont Rise Marlow. It is possible that the house was previously known as Wood View and was built in the 1880s or at the turn of the 1890s. There were at least three houses in Marlow called Wood View at the same time which is typical of our townsfolk's not very helpful approach to house naming and addresses in general. The residents of Wood View Beaumont Rise were a family of elderly sisters Ada, Amy and Charlotte from the Barton family. Headed by Ada, they were baby linen manufacturers and embroiders. More on these ladies in this post and the Barton family as a whole in a future post.

Some time between 1904 and 1907 Miss Caroline Patrickson (bn 1832 /33) moved in to Effra with her maidservant and lady's companion and remained there until her death in 1924. It is most likely that she entered into the house following the demise of Ada Barton in 1906, IF we are correct in thinking that Effra was previously Wood View, and it was at this point that the name of the house changed. Caroline was a very religious lady and a bird lover, being the honorary secretary of the Marlow branch of the RSPB. She helped out in many Congregational Church events in Marlow suggesting she was a member of that church but in her will written in 1912 and proved in 1924 she left money not only to that church and to it's minister George Jones but to the Plymouth Brethren place of worship in Oxford Road, the local and nationwide Salvation Army, the British and Foreign Bible Society, the London Missionary Society for Jews, The Society For The Propagation Of The Bible In Foreign Parts, South African Mission To Lepers, Baptist Missionary Society For The Congo.

She also left money to her two servants but these had changed since the year before reflecting the often complained of difficulty of retaining servants in that era.

Caroline's great religious feeling is also evidenced by the fact that she paid £100, more than half the cost of the installation  organ in the parish church in 1897.

Prior to living in Beaumont Rise Caroline made Glade Road her home but she was by origin an Islington woman. Her father William had been for many years the mathematics teacher at the Mercers School. Either this was a lucrative position or there was otherwise family money as Caroline was able to live her life by way of "private means" rather than working and she left an estate worth an impressive £14,000. On the 1871 census Caroline's income like her widowed mother Ann's was specifically described as coming from "houses and dividends". The women later moved to Penn, Buckinghamshire where Ann was buried in 1879, and sometimes between 1881 and 1891 Caroline arrived in Marlow. As well as the churches, she supported the Cottage Hospital generously during her residency. 

Well off as she was Caroline did not own Effra. The owner, at least in the early 1920s but most likely the whole time of her occupancy was Mr R.N Smith of Marlow. He owned numerous properties in Beaumont Rise. Following his death in 1922 his real estate was sold off. Effra was bought by Mr L.R Nash for the princely sum of £835! Presumably this was Leonard, the solicitor who lived in nearby Glade Road. More on him here.

By the mid 1930s the house had been divided into two flats.

Effra does not seem to exist as a named property today, though it may be sat there right under our noses just not displaying any name. It was on the North side of Beaumont Rise, near to the Institute Road end.

Researched and written by Charlotte Day.

Posts about other specific houses or streets in Marlow are indexed here.

©Marlow Ancestors. You are very welcome to use our research for family or local history purposes with credit to this blog.

Some Sources.

1891,1907 and 1915 editions of the Marlow Directory and Almanack. Produced by the Marlow Printing Company.

Kelly's Post Office Directory of  Buckinghamshire etc 1911 and 1915, Kelly's Directories Limited.

RSPB Annual Report 1904, Google Books.

Reading Observer 22nd March 1924 British Library Archives via the British Newspaper Archive.

South Bucks Standard 25th October 1901.

The Register, and Magazine of Biography: A Record of Births, Marriages, Deaths, and Other Genealogical and Personal Occurrences. V. 1-2; Jan.-Dec. 1869. United Kingdom, Nichols and sons, 1869.

https://www.rootspoint.com/record/1901-UK-Census/Joseph-Erdall-1869-Raonan-Warwickshire-Marlow-Urban/ff85ab5b-a76d-4a6b-91f2-b2210bb8eb04/

"England and Wales Census, 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7VP-X47 : 22 July 2019), Rose Patrickson in household of Caroline Patrickson, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1911 England and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 14, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.

Will of Caroline Patrickson.

1891 census Great Marlow transcribed by me from microfilm.

" 1871", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VFXM-RJF : 26 June 2022), Caroline Patrickson in entry for Ann Patrickson, 1871.

"England and Wales Census, 1861", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M76Z-PCW : Fri Mar 08 23:56:35 UTC 2024), Entry for William Patrickson and Ann Patrickson, 1861.

"England and Wales Census, 1881", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27Z-T36F : Tue Mar 05 03:55:56 UTC 2024), Entry for Caroline Patrickson and Hannah Routledge, 1881.

"England and Wales Census, 1841", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQJV-DMB : Sat Mar 09 18:41:36 UTC 2024), Entry for William Patrickson and Anne Patrickson, 1841.

"England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVHQ-36NJ : 3 November 2021), Caroline Patrickson, 1924.

"England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPLZ-XFWH : Sat Mar 09 08:41:51 UTC 2024), Entry for Caroline Patrickson and Arthur Joseph Clarke, 11 March 1924.

"Find a Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FKQ-KNP2 : 2 June 2022), Ann Patrickson, ; Burial, Penn, Chiltern District, Buckinghamshire, England, Holy Trinity Churchyard; citing record ID 239315913, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

Bucks Herald July 22nd 1922. British Library Archives, via the BNA.

The Entertaining Hammerton Family Of Glade Rd/Beaumont Rise

If you were to stroll down Glade Road in the 1880s, you would probably eventually find yourself outpaced by a particularly vigorous octogenarian on one of his shorter strolls, perhaps to Maidenhead or Cookham. If you don't think that's a particularly short ramble for a man the age of James Humphrey Hammerton, he will scoff at your ideas. Known to be a sociable and chatty fellow, he would probably love to stop and tell you how when he lived at Brixton he used to walk to Portsmouth to breakfast with friends. No doubt joining the Royal Navy at the tender age of 10 gave the young James plenty of experience of physical discomfort to harden his constitution! We will leave James to his exertions while we take a look at the entertaining Hammerton family. 

Agent and dressmaker

Browsing the census entries for Great Marlow, you would find James Humphrey Hammerton at The Kentons Glade Rd from 1881 when he's given the occupation of "retired commercial agent" while his daughter Edith is in later life a dressmaker. Both roles sound typical for the generally reasonably well off  Glade Road residents at the time and it would be easy to assume there was not much interesting about the pair. But how wrong we would be! 

I think James, his second wife Jessy and the aforementioned daughter Edith arrived in Marlow around 1876. For James it was a retirement from a busy life but for Edith it was probably the start of an even busier one. 

HMS Victory Souvenirs

James was born 1802 at Newington Butts Surrey. He joined the navy young as a "first class volunteer" and was promoted to Lieutenant. His father, James Hamilton Hammerton was also a naval man and one who was a gunner on HMS Victory under Nelson no less. A looking glass said to have been made from the timbers of the Victory was a treasured family possession and one proudly shown to visitors at Marlow. Naturally with such a family background, James had no shortage of stories of derring do and "breathtaking escapes" from his families naval years. The most famous story of all was that James had - somewhat unwittingly perhaps- saved the life of George IV when the latter slipped when boarding a vessel at Portsmouth. He reached out and grabbed James who managed to steady him and so both were prevented from taking a watery tumble. James was later part of the "Preventative Service" who were on the prowl along the south coast for smugglers. No wonder he was ready to leave the navy in his 20s and settle down to marriage and life in Brixton. 

He was seemingly always interested in science and among his roles in life before he arrived in Marlow was as director of The Electric Telegraph Company in the 1840s. He wrote to various scientific and technical journals about the subject of using gutta percha to insulate telegraphic wires, which he hoped could be laid underground in existing gas pipes. Some of the practical experiments James had conducted sounds alarmingly hands on considering they involved sending electrical currant through wires he only hoped were sufficiently insulated. His chief idea to insulate telegraph wires at their point of mounting onto posts, also using gutta percha, does not seem to have been tried in use as it was feared the material was too subject to weathering to be worthwhile. He is said to have later been the superintendent of the telegraph company charged with laying wires between Scotland and England and also to have worked with the great Isambard Kingdom Brunel. I wonder if he was a friends of Marlow's native born engineering family, the Clarks - specifically Edwin and Latimer. They all had special interests in many areas of science as well as telegraph systems and they also worked with Brunel. Edwin Clark and James were both enthusiastic members of the Marlow Mutual Improvement Society too, which aimed to bring educational  lectures in reach of everyone. The Victory looking glass, and the naval swords belonging to both James and his father were on display at some of the Society events. And Edwin and James also shared a passion for photography. How interesting the photo albums of James Hammerton would no doubt be for us today. 

Later in life James was a cement and slate etc agent hence his latter description as a "retired commercial agent". 

 Retirement in Marlow 

By the time James came to Marlow with wife Jessy he had retired. They would seem to have had a comfortable life, with a live in servant in their Glade Road home. Jessy died in 1891, after which James was said to have somewhat curtailed his vigorous exercise regime. Perhaps he felt he was finally "getting on" a little. But when he was not physically able to walk too far, was this the end of meeting James around town? Not a bit of it. He had a wheeled chair hired so he could still go out and get his daily dose of fresh air. And when he wasn't doing that, he loved to sit out the front of the house  all day to chat to passers by. But even the redoubtable James could not last for ever and he died at home in his 96th year. (1898) 

Edith Hammerton is a busy lady 

Now we come to Edith Hammerton, daughter of James and Jessy. After her father death she moved to "Holmeleigh" or "Homeleigh"  in Beaumont Rise, which leads off Glade Rd. Both Edith and her mother can be found listed as helpers at church events, but it's after her parents death that Edith seems to have come into her own. After this Edith becomes a whirlwind of energy when it comes to helping the community. Whether she favoured long walks herself isn't recorded but she certainly knew her way to All Saints Church. Edith was a Sunday School teacher for a great number of years. She seems to have been a favourite with the children, who remembered her fondly many years later although they also remembered she was a stickler for politeness and decorous conduct. But what else could we expect from a Sunday school teacher. Edith was a frequent donor of goods and money to the Cottage hospital and was one of its lady visitors. These were generally speaking better off ladies who did the rounds of the sick when it was considered necessary, and also visited within the hospital. A different lady from amongst the committee or subscribers would fulfill the role each week, and they often made suggestions as to how improvements could be made to better support the need of the mainly poor patients. 

Edith could be found serving at parish teas, fundraising for various events, and hosting stalls at bazaars for every cause imaginable. She was also amongst the ladies who decorated the parish church for the Harvest festival. These decorations sometimes seem bewilderingly complex constructions of corn, bread, flowers and produce completely covering the alter etc. I wonder sometimes how the poor vicar made it through!  Works of art they surely were and it's a great shame that images of these ladies amazing creations have not survived. 

Her day job was as a dressmaker until she had earned enough to retire on "private means". Dressmaking seems the inevitable occupation in Marlow of better off unmarried woman who still needed an income to some degree. Edith worked from home but she also employed others to assist her. 

Edith Hammerton died in 1949 aged 92. 

*Did you know that if you go to Marlow Museum you can see a charming miniature kitchen presented by Edith? The accompanying plaque says that it had been in her family since 1796! Please check with the museum that it will be on display before your visit. 

Find out more about this lovely object here: Marlow Museum

Written and researched by Kathryn Day. 

©Marlow Ancestors. 

Related posts: 

Early residents of Beaumont Rise - (Edith's neighbours!) here

Latimer Clark here and Edwin Clark here

The mutual improvement society and Marlow Literary and Scientific Institute - both supported by James Hammerton - here

For other posts about Glade Rd or Beaumont Rise residents - see the street index here

Everyday life in the Marlow of Janes and Edith - here

To look for a specific person use the A-Z person index in the top drop down menu. 

Sources:

Marlow Directory and Almanack 1907 

Marlow Directory and Tourists Guide, 1903. 

Marlow Guide 1907. 

Mechanics Magazine, Register and Gazette, 1848 collected edition.  Knight and Lacey, 1848. 

Mechanics Magazine, Register and Gazette, 1849 collected edition.  Knight and Lacey, 1849.  

PCC will of James J Hamilton Hammerton "gunner of His Majesty's ship The Victory" proven 1828  PROB 11/1735/190, National Archives, Kew. 

Prescott, G. B. (1860). History, Theory, and Practice of the Electric Telegraph. United States: Ticknor and Fields.

Bucks Herald 28th February 1891 

Hampshire Telegraph 4th June 1898

Henley and South Oxford Standard - 27th May 1898 

South Bucks Standard 29th October 1897, 29th May 1898, 29th September 1899, 24th October 1902, 30th November 1906. 

Kelly's Directory Of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxon 1883, 1911, 1920, 1939 by Kelly's Directory Limited.

England Marriages, 1538–1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N242-NFM : 14 July 2023), James Hamilton Hammerton, 1799.

England and Wales Census, 1861", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2MP-3P3Q : Sat Mar 09 01:12:50 UTC 2024), Entry for Edith Hammerton and Ada Hammerton, 1861.

"England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVHB-K4XV : 4 September 2014),

Census transcripts from originals by Jane Pullinger, 1881 & 1891 with thanks. 

Edith E Hammerton, 1949; from "England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Death, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.

More Where in Marlow was..Part 5

If you can't find the place you are looking for here, take a look at our other "Where in Marlow was..?" posts - part one here, part two here, no 3 here and part 4 here.

Abercynon - house, Little Marlow Road.

Aberystwyth - house, Claremont Road.

Alfred House now Cromwell House, High Street. Historic occupiers here

Andover - house, Oak Tree Road.

Applegarth - house, Dedmere Rise.

Arthur Villa - Claremont Road.

Ashcroft- Address given also as "Claremont Lodge", Claremont Road area. 

Ash, The - house, Little Marlow Road.

Ashtead - Claremont Road. 

Beechwood - house, off Henley Road. Demolished. Built circa 1883 in grounds of Beech Lodge.  Had been rebuilt 1925. 

Beech Lodge - Wadham Wyndham's residence from at least 1819. Aka Red Pits/Red Pits Lodge. About the Wyndhams here.

Bob Moore's Lane= now Bobmore Lane 

Bohemia- house, adjacent Marlow Bridge. On Berks side of river. 

Bokpara - house, Little Marlow Road.

Brewery Cottages - Wethered built row of cottages mainly for Brewery employees, Oxford Rd just past Queen's Rd turning if coming from town. Aka Chalk Pit Cottages although these can refer to those by water works, Chalk Pit Lane. 

Broomhurst - house, Cromwell Gardens.

Burnham Villa - Glade Road. 

Caldwell Lodge - Station Road, still carries this name.

Church Road - Now known as Wethered Rd. If you are puzzled by the high house numbers in this very short road, it can be explained by the fact that when the adjacent Dean Street was first  numbered, they looped down Church Rd with the numbers before continuing on up Dean Street. So in the Edwardian era, you won't find low numbered properties in Church Rd. All early houses in this road have been demolished. 

Claremont House - Claremont Road. 

Cleeveville - house, New Town Road. 

Clynview- (also Clyn View-) House, Glade Road.

Coop, The - house, Little Marlow Road.

Crendon Cottages - Crown Road. Presumably still there but not obviously marked.

Croft Cottage - Pound Lane. Not The Croft, which is now Gyldernscroft .

Daintree aka Daintree Cottage - house, "Claremont Estate" now Claremont Gardens. 

Darfield - Glade Road.

Dedmere House - see Field House below.

East View Villas - Glade Road.

Effra - house, Beaumont Rise. 

Ellerslie - house, used as "apartments" for a good while, Institute Road.

Elmcroft  -  house, Little Marlow Road.

Ennismore - house, Little Marlow Road.

Euonymus - Little Marlow Road.

Evergreen - house, Glade Road. 

Fairlawn / Fair Lawn - house, Riverwoods Estate as it was referred to in the early days (Edwardian) but address given as Westhorpe Rd later

Field House-  off modern Field House Lane / Dedmere Road. Address historically given as Dedmere, Marlow, Marlow Fields or sometimes New Town. Also called Dedmere House. Field House Farm off New Town Road had 30 acres in 1916, 20 acres in 1881. History post here.

Forthar - house, Little Marlow Road.

Frankfield (Sometimes Frank Field) - house, Spinfield Lane.

Gables, The - Institute Road. Built for Dr Dunbar Dickson. 

Glade, The - now The Cedars, Glade Historic resident Charlotte Cocks here

Glade Nook  - 1.) house, Glade Road. 2. house Claremont Estate (Claremont Road area). Could be same house in fact due to consistent confused use of addresses in this part of Marlow in the early days of development.

Glenesk - Cromwell Gardens. 

Glenfield - house, Little Marlow Road

Glenlyn - house, Station Road .

Glenside - house, Claremont Road.

Godyers / Goodyers / Goodyears /Goodiers - the name Thames Bank House bore early in its life. Probably an earlier building too. 

Gos(s)emore House - the name adopted by Artist Percy Wild for The Eyrie in 1899. Often rendered as Gossmore House. Off Gossmore/Lock Road, with grounds that originally ran to towpath. Address may be given as "Marlow Fields" (1897, 1899) For history of The Eyrie when it was a menagerie see here

Hartfield - house, Little Marlow Road

Haven, The - house, Claremont Road. 

Highfield(s) - off Henley Road. Demolished. 

Highwell Cottage - Station Road. Probably misspelling on Highwall Cottage there. Adjacent to Marlow Place - with a very high wall surrounding it! 

Holmelea - Henley Rd, Edwardian. 

Holmesley, Homesley house, Station Road.

Ingledean  / Ingledene - house, Claremont Road. 

Ingleneux /Ingleneuk - house, Claremont Road.

Kendal Cottage - Glade Road.

Kiama - house, Little Marlow Road.

Kia-Ora - house, Claremont Road.

Kinclaven - house, Little Marlow Road.

Lammas Lane - lane (often a footpath at best) bordering Rookery Park and leading from Chapel End to what is now the cemetery area. Aka Arzees Lane, Hawes Lane and Rookery Lane. 

Laurels, The - Beaumont Rise.

Lymbrook - (occasionally Lynbrook but see below) - name used for Thames Bank house (now known as Thames Lawn) from at least 1869-1939, however many people continued to use old name of Thames Bank during  this time, as they also continued to use it when the name changed again to Thames Lawn. Note also that Thames Lawn existed as separate house nearer lock prior to Thames Bank using the name. And a separate house in St Peters Street was known as Limbrook(e) in the 1820s, while Limbrook Wharf there existed 1850's and was sometimes used as a trading address. There is also a modern house called Lymbrook at Marlow Common. Confused yet? 

Lynton - Glade Road. 

Lynwood - house, Cromwell Gardens. Extant. The property Alfred Davis (who gave his name to the Marlow FC ground) was living in at his death in 1927.   They also owned the neighbouring house Ashleigh. Also a property at Marlow Common.

Maida Vale - house, Claremont Estate,  later described as located in Claremont Gardens. 

Maisonette - a house in fact. In  "New Town" - modern New Town Road area

Maldah - house, Institute Road. Exists with name intact. Post about early residents here.

Manse, The - Chapel Street. No 64 historic numbering. 

Marlow Villas - Claremont Road 1909. Pair of houses. Still named. 

Marlow Lodge - Station Road.  Formerly Suffolk Lodge. 

Merolla - house, Station Road. 

Mitching Dean - house, Glade Road.

Myrtle House - Claremont Road. 

Naseby - house. Maybe described as either Cromwell Gardens or the adjacent Claremont Road. Extant and still named. 

Nesscliffe - house, Glade Road. 

Orchard Cottage - Mill Road.

Ready Money Row - colloquial name for Dean Street, as was "The City" and "Packmans Puzzle"

Pendennis - house, Glade Road.

Pleasaunce, The aka The Plesance - House, Beaumont Rise (no.1, still so named) to

Rest, The - house, Glade Road. 

Rosecroft - Glade Road. 

Rosenan - house, Beaumont Rise. Poss misspelling of Rosenau Beaumont Rise, a twin of Castlenau. 

Rose Villa - "Institute Road", but probably actually the same one as in Beaumont Rise. Also earlier Rose Villas (plural), in uncertain location.

Roy Glen - house, Claremont Road. Also a house was called Royston in "New Town", specifically in Holland Rd. 

Ruby Villa - Berwick Road, no longer named. Probably named by early residents after their daughter Ruby. 

Seaton - house, Beaumont Rise, exists still with this name. 

Shamrock Cottage - Glade Road. Early residents of the property ( number 7) here. No longer bears the name.

Spinneys, The - house, West Street. 

St. Clare - let as apartments, Station Road. 

St. Georges Cottage - Beaumont Rise. 

St. Margarets - house, Wycombe Road

St. Marys - house, Claremont Road. 

St. Mawes - house, "Newtown". New Town Road area.

St. Ronans - house, Cromwell Gardens .

Suffolk Lodge - off what is now Station Road & Lock Road. Gardens bordered South Place and Station Road. Later Marlow Lodge (there was also a Marlow Lodge in Little Marlow village, and at Fingest)

Surmoor - property Queens Road. 

Swallows, The  - Little Marlow Road (Previously known as Prospect House, possibly one of two properties to be called that) Demolished. 

Swilley Cottage - Little Marlow Road. Swilley Villa, which appears to be in the same area, may be the same place or in the adjacent Wycombe Rd. 

Thistle Cottage - Glade Road. 

Thornwood - house, Cromwell Gardens.

Valley View- house, Little Marlow Road. Used for many purposes over the years. 

Victoria Cottages - pair, 1872, Victoria Road. Extant.

Wellingrove - house, Station Road. (Occasionally Welling Grove). 

Western House - house, West Street (Henley Road end). Still extant. 

West View - 1.) Cromwell Gardens 2. "New Town" (Newtown Road area).

Westwood  house, Institute Road

Wiggintons Row- Dean Street, cottages. Colloquial name.

Woodland Cottage - Gossmore Road, ( now Lane).

Woodlands- a house,  Claremont Gardens.

Woodside -1.)  Riverwoods Estate 2.) Little Marlow Road.

Remember that homes listed as located within "Glade Road" in the past may actually be in the streets nearby. Glade Road was developed first and for a lack of specific address for themselves some new homes in the nearby area built in what was fields or down as yet unamed roads used "Glade Road" as a postal address as it was their nearest named location. Similarly homes given historically as in "New Town" will be in the general area of but not necessarily actually in what is now New Town Road. The same applies to homes formerly described as being in "The Claremont Estate" or "Claremont Garden Estate" - they may have been in what is now Claremont Road or Claremont Gardens or in nearby streets.

 Compiled by Charlotte Day and Kathryn Day.

Beaumont Rise, Marlow Early History 1886+

Artists Frances and Hamlet Bannerman were some of the first residents of Beaumont Rise. They moved in soon after their 1886 marriage. Frances was a Canadian by birth, the first Canadian artist to exhibit at the Paris Salon. Her work shows some Impressionist characteristics, unsurprisingly as she studied in France. She also featured in Royal Academy exhibitions in London. One of her best known paintings is "Marlow Regatta Course" which was painted in 1890. Nee Jones, she married her English husband in 1886. He was a member of the British Society of Artists and his work featured scenes of Marlow and Bisham. Hamlet, like his wife, was also a published poet. He also found time to play for Marlow Cricket Club on occasion. Sadly Hamlet died at Beaumont Rise in 1895 while still in his prime. Frances eventually moved away from the town.

The Bannermans weren't the only link between the arts and Beaumont Rise. Edwardian resident Samuel Bath was a professor of music and organist. He was also one of the witnesses for the prosecution in the 1920 Kate Bailey murder trial.

Though only a residential street today, Beaumont Rise had its own (small) general shop in the 1900s and 1910s operated by Mrs Ellen R Osborne. 

In the 1910s the street was finally, after years of pleading by concerned parties, paved, drained, lit with lamps and possessed of a pavement. In the late 1800s none of the above was the case and the road conditions there were described as so bad that it was a disgrace to the town. The South Bucks Standard (whose then Marlow agent George Kendall lived at number 4) said in 1902 that to walk down that street after rain was to wade through "lakes" of water. This is probably why it was an accident black spot bringing down early cyclists, the fly that carried passengers from the Crown to the nearby station, commercial vehicles and other users. 

The proximity of Beaumont Rise to the station led to several Marlow station masters living in Soho Terrace which is part of the Street. See here for more on them and Soho Terrace.

Throughout the 1890s (if not longer) there was a plant nursery, called Beaumont Nursery off the Rise ran by Mr Taplin. Taplin's 7 room home there was also known as The Nurseries. It contained forcing pits and green houses in the large gardens as you would expect. In the early 1880s part of the land in the Rise was also planted with a crop of fruit trees but this land was soon sold off for building plots.

Other more humble pursuits of Beaumont Rise's residents included dressmaking (Miss Elizabeth Bradshaw at number 1 in 1901 and 1902 and Miss Hammerton a little later) and bar work - a trade Miss E Hearne announced she wanted a new job in via a 1903 ad in the Reading Mercury. She was, she stressed, experienced and "tall" with good references. The Miss Hammerton was obviously a successful dressmaker as she was able to afford to advertise for a general servant in 1910. A detailed post about Edith Hammerton will follow shortly. 

Twenty one year old Ernest Hood advertised for work as a chauffeur in 1905. He obviously wished to make a new start elsewhere as his ad was in the Kent and Sussex Courier [20th Jan 1905. British Library Archives via the BNA]. Ernest reassured perspective employers that he could do all repairs to the vehicle. This was a pretty standard requirement for chauffeurs in those days. The young man ended up as a domestic chauffeur in South Kensington London in fact.

For more on Young James Lovell the Marlow builder who died at his Beaumont Rise home "Seaton" in 1912 see this biographical post. He sold the building plots mentioned above and may have built some of the buildings in the street as he did in nearby Station Road, Claremont Rd and Institute Road.

Written and researched by Charlotte Day.

NB In its early years the residents of Beaumont Rise can be referred to as living in Glade Rd (adjacent, developed long before) or Junction Road (although this name was also used for nearby Claremont Rd, Station Rise and Claremont Gardens at times in their early development too)

Biographical post on Edith Hammerton dressmaker of Beaumont Rise - and her naval ancestors - here

Beaumont Rise in the 1887 Jubilee features here

Other posts on specific Marlow streets, houses, shops etc can be found listed on this index.

All mentions of any individual in this blog can be found on the Person Index on the top drop down menu

©Marlow Ancestors. You are welcome to use my research with credit to this blog.

Some Sources:

400 Years In 365 Days: A Calendar Of Nova Scotia History. By Leo J Deveau. Formac Publishing Company. 2017.

1907 Marlow Directory and Almanack, Marlow Publishing Company.

Victorian Painters: The Text. By Christopher Wood, Christopher Newall, and Margaret Richardson. Published by Antique Collectors Club. 1995. Via Google Books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Bannerman

Kelly's Directory Of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxon 1911 by Kelly's Directory Limited.

South Bucks Standard 28th June 1895. Reading Mercury 19th September 1903 and 16th December 1911. British Library Archives via the BNA.

Census transcriptions 1891, 1901 from microfilm by Charlotte.

"England and Wales Census, 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWL6-T3N : 16 May 2019), Ernest Percival Hood, Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom; from "1911 England and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 14, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.

Woman of Canada: their life and work, National Council of Women of Canada, 1901. 

Slough Eton and Windsor Observer, June 1889, Slough Libraries. 

The Energetic Smiths of Beaufort Cottage

 Reuben Nereus Smith and Mary Ann Smith lived in Beaufort Cottage from at least 1874 when their baby son Henry Bernard was born there. Sadly the infant died the next year.

Reuben was the collector of rates and assistant overseer for Marlow for many years, the agent for the Harleyford estate, the Managing Director of the Marlow Water Company, Chairman of the Wycombe Chair Company, Chairman of the Buckinghamshire Chair Company based in Marlow, a house agent and the clerk of the Great Marlow Parish Council. He had many of these roles at the same time. When did the man ever sleep? More on the Buckinghamshire Chair Company and Reuben's involvement here

Reuben started off his working life quite humbly as a teenage shop boy working in London. He was born circa 1834 -36 - according to the census this was in Marlow. Reuben may have worked as a tax collector in London too. He spent the years c1854-1862 in Australia before returning home with a good amount of money behind him. Five years later he was appointed inspector of nuisances for the Wycombe board of guardians, and in 1872 he became the collector of parish rates, only relinquishing this role in 1899. 

His brother Robert Hayes Smith** was a hairdresser come printer/ bookseller/ newsagents who had premises in Spittal Street Marlow, then later the High Street. 

We can presume Reuben's youthful leisure activities did not include skinny dipping as he was one of those, along with his father, getting into a flap in Marlow in 1877 about the younger generation's way of bathing in the Thames. There was he said "an infestation" of young men running along the riverside at Marlow without a stitch on. It was still a problem decades later so Reuben didn't win that round. (More on the swimming here!)

Lawrence Joseph Smith son of Reuben and Mary Ann was also bookseller and stationer by 1893 when he applied for a alcohol license for his premises and became a spirit merchant too. Those Smiths liked to keep busy! Did I mention that he also later had a role in the Wycombe Chair Company and the local parish too just like his dad?

Angela* Theresa their daughter was a student at Northampton School of Sciences and Art. She was an art student, their best pupil in 1893, and passed examinations qualifying her as an art teacher, though I have found no evidence she actually took on that role.

In 1899 the fact that she, as a female, was one of the winners of a football results prediction competition ran by a local paper generated an incredulous (but good natured) article from that said paper.

Angela was Reuben and Mary Ann's second daughter. Their eldest Celestina died aged only in her 30s in 1902. Against social norms of the day she had set herself up in business -as a furniture dealer and coal merchant- and headed her own household as a young unmarried woman. She lived as such in Dallington Northampton on the 1891 census with her younger siblings Angela and Reuben junior as her assistants. Angela had quite an unusual career path then. There can't be too many young women who went from assistant coal merchant to art student! On the 1901 census Angela had no listed occupation probably as she was about to be married to William Davis of Northamptonshire.

Celestina is on the same census as a resident in an Isle of Wight boarding house living on her own means. So no more furniture or coal dealing. Given that she died a year later it is possible her residence on the Isle of Wight was for reasons of poor health- it was a popular destination for that. She died at Beaufort cottage and is buried in the Catholic churchyard.

Reuben died in 1915. I am unsure as to Mary Ann's death. Unfortunately I can find little about her as a person except that she came from Inverness-shire Scotland.

* Name registered at birth as Angela but she is referred to elsewhere as both Angela and Angelina. Unusual names ran in the Smith family- Reuben's mother was apparently called Ledger. Angelina is a name that is predominantly Catholic in use at this period. 

** Read about a theft at Robert's shop, and the surprising perpetrator here and more about Robert here

Some research Sources:

Censuses my transcription of images on microfilm.

Newspapers held by the British Library and accessed from the BNA August 2020: South Bucks Standard 10th February 1899, 10 March 1899 and 25th August 1893. [Football competition, Angela's art success].

As above but accessed March 2021: Bucks Herald 23rd June 1877. [Nude bathing].

Marriage certificate and birth certificates obtained from the GRO. Death registration indexes on the GRO website, death certificates.

Researched and written by Charlotte Day. Additional research by Kathryn Day. 

©Marlow Ancestors. You are very welcome to reuse this research for family or local history purposes with credit to this blog and link here.

Even More Where In Marlow Was..? PART 3

A list of difficult or vanished addresses for modern researchers, updated often. 

Part One here, Two here. Four here. Five here

 To find out more about a particular house, street, shop etc see the Specific shops, streets etc option on the top drop down menu. 

Acorns, The house, Institute Rd. Still bears name. 

Ashley View - Newtown Rd

Avonmore - (See also this post on the 1890s flu pandemic  Here )

Avondale - house, Beaumont Rise. 

Bothy, The - the name for gardeners accomodation on large estate, and gardens. Can be found at Highfields and Danesfield.  Not used for accomodation at Remnantz despite name in Wethered Park - that building was a potting shed, and prior to that a vinery! 

Bromleigh - Station Rise

Bungalow, The - Wethered Rd 2. Station Rd 3. New Town 

Caxton, Caxton Villa - now Mill Rd, in Platts Cottages/Row

Cintra - Claremont Gardens

Clwyd - Portlands (adjacent Portland Villas)

Cornerways - Gossmore/Mill Rd. There was also a Crossways, Station Rise

Corshel - Newtown 

Crossways, The - Station Rise. See also Cornerways. 

Derriford  - Queens Rd

Dolls House, The - Claremont Rd

Elmwood - Glade Rd

Fairlight - Claremont Gardens

Fairford - Appartments in Station Rd. 

Glendower - Portlands

Glenoma - New Town eg Holland Rd, Newtown Rd area

Glenrosa or Glen Rosa - Claremont Rd. 

Glenthorne - house, Beaumont Rise

Godstone - Little Marlow Rd

Greyroofs - qv Portlands, may be meant for Greywalls. 

Harris's Gardens- West End as they called it. We would now render this place as being in Henley Road. Borlase side of road.

Hermitage, The - Pound Lane.  (occasional alternative name for the Deanery, St Peters Street too) 

Homelea - Red Pits, off Henley Rd. 

Homeleigh - Beaumont Rise

Homerton Cottage - Eton Place

Invergarry Dedmere Rd

Inverglyde - Beaumont Rise

Jordans- house apparently in Marlow Bottom 1700s.

Klemler - New Town - New Town rd area

Kewfields - Beaumont Rise

Larches, The - Oxford Rd

Leacroft - Little Marlow Rd

Lilyville - Dedmere Rd

Lindum - Little Marlow Rd

Lowermead - Dedmere Rd

Lulworth/Lulworth Villa - contemporary address given as Claremont Estate or Glade Rd, now in Claremont Gardens. Also name given more recently to a house in Munday Dean. 

Modena - Claremont Gardens

Montague House- house St Peter's Street.

Myne holm - Glade Rd, Myneholme - Institute Rd. Would not surprise me if the two properties were in fact one as Glade Rd was adopted as a nearest address for homes in the new development around Institute Rd before the name was established. 

Palmers - High Str, modern no 65.  Named after previous owners. Also historic surgeons premises, one of several in High Street, hence aka  Doctors House but this name may also refer to other properties depending on period. 

Reddersberg - West Street. One of a rash of South African inspired house names adopted in Marlow  around the time of the relief of Mafeking and later. 

Rosemead - Mill Road.

Rosemary AKA Rosemary Villa - Berwick Road.

Rosemont, Rosemount - New Town

Rosare - New Town Rd

Royton - Newtown. 

Ryepeck, Rye Peck - house then private residential hotel, riverside. For a post featuring the Cuppy family, one of whom briefly ran this place see post here. Originally built as a private residence. 

Spowkes - Hayes Place

Three Gables - the name taken on by the replacement for the original Thames Lawn by Marlow Lock. (Note Thames Lawn is also the name taken on by Lymbrook/Thames Bank after approx 1925)

Wedmore - Station Approach

White Cottage, The - Little Marlow Rd

Whitehead Place - address given for James Beckett, carpenter in Pigots Directory 1844. He is later described as being in the High Street. Other Beckett property is in Quoiting Place. 

Win-Tor - Little Marlow Rd

Post researched by Kathryn Day with with additional research by Charlotte Day.

For more Where In Marlow Was, see several previous posts linked at top. 

©Marlow Ancestors. You are very welcome to use this content for family or local history purposes with credit to this blog. 

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 - house, Beaumont 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 for other developments.  For the full list of names that Station Rise and it's twin Beaufort Gardens have been known as see under Upper Station Rise in this list here.  NB although some residents of what we call Station Rise (then Lower Station Rise) used Institute Rise as an alternative name, it was more often used for what was then more usually known as Upper Station Rise or Beaufort Gardens as it is now called. 

Junction Road - Early name for Beaumont Rise.  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.

*To find all mentions of a street or house you are interested in, see the drop down menu above for the Places index and Pub listings* 

©Marlow Ancestors. You are welcome to reuse this research with credit to this blog and a link here. 

Soho Terrace- Home Of Marlow Station Masters

 Two of Marlow's early Station Masters lived in Soho Terrace, Beaumont Rise. George Thomas Broad was resident 1881 until he was promoted to Master of Leamington Station in 1884 and left. He was stationed at Marlow from 1878 and may in fact have lived at Soho Terrace right from the beginning. I am only certain of his address 1881-84. 

When he left Marlow the Reading Mercury said he had won many friends by his "energy and courtesy" in his role. 

George's own father had been a Station Master too.

After George went to Leamington he suffered a serious illness (an attack of paralysis) and went blind. He was forced to retire early and died in 1899.

His replacement at Marlow Henry Yeo also lived at Soho Terrace until he left the town in 1893, after ill health forced his retirement. 

Both men were lodgers with Edward and Hannah Broad. If they were relatives of George Broad it is not obvious to me how. Edward was a carpenter.

Researched and written by Charlotte Day.

Sources:

1881 and 1891 census of Great Marlow. 1881 transcribed by me from microfilm. 1891 from Familysearch website ran by the LDS / Intellectual Reserve Inc. Accessed March 2021.

Reading Mercury 30th August 1884, South Bucks Standard 17th November 1899. Newspaper copies held at the British Library archives and accessed by me from the BNA March 2021.

Kelly's Directory of Buckinghamshire, by Kelly's Directories Limited 1883. Digitized by Google. Accessed March 2021.

Where in Great Marlow Was....? Part 1

I have used period sources to judge this so as to be accurate. Part Two here and no Three here. Four here Five here

©Marlow Ancestors. You are welcome to reuse this research if credit this source. 

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. Some reports suggest that this was a redivision with the house having built as 3 cottages, knocked into one then later divided into 3 again.

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 Road. A foot path, more or less official! 

Ashurst- a house Station Road.

Ashleigh- 1.) house Cromwell Gardens paired with Lynwood,  and 2.) later also a house 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 the road 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 Road 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 after 1852 to Wethered Road. 

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. Peter Street. 

Church Street- on rare occasions Chapel Street is called this. Many instances also can be found of what is now Wethered Rd being referred to as a church Street or Church Road 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 for The Cottage. Aka Quoiting House. 

Crescent Cottages- Duke's Place.

Creswell /Cresswell Cottages- usually refers to what is now called Creswell Row, off Cambridge Road. It was more usually known as Creswell's Row in the past too. However the Victorian Cres(s)well family also owned 4 cottages in Cambridge Road near the gas works and 8 in Queens Road 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. May be the same as recorded house Fairfold. 

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 and still in use as such in the 1930s. 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 former 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 Road and Queens Road, 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 also possible.

Horns Inn Yard- by the Horns pub, Chapel Street. 

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. 8 houses, plus a corner shop at the junction of Dean Street/ Queens Road.  Owned in 1890s by Mr E Riley namesake of Riley recreation ground. Seemingly erected 1887 which would make sense given the name! 

Kensington Cottage - Glade Road, 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. The former is 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. 

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 Road, 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 it's fringes. Aka Merefield in some early sources. 

Marefield Place- off Queens Road. Maps show it to seemingly only have foot access. No part of the original buildings exist but modern Marefield Road is roughly in the spot. Was off Marefield Passage. 

Melrose Villa- Glade Road. Also there was a semi detached house called Melrose in 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, Quarry Wood Road and Claremont Road were all referred to as this. Claremont Road kept the name the longest. It was common everywhere for roads to receive proper names only after a reasonable amount of housing development had occurred in them but Marlow street namers were particularly lazy.

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. Nearby streets to Newtown Road such as Holland Road may simply be given the address "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-  in Oxford Road. 

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 near 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 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 Road end, also let as "apartments", and in use as a school. Near the corner of Victoria Road. 

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 it swems, 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. Probably refers to Home Meadow. 

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- One of those names for homes so  popular in Edwardian era so can be applied to houses in  Henley Road,  Station Rise, & Little Marlow Rd.  Also very 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 Lane- an occasional way of describing Trinity Road. Formerly Gun Lane. 

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- 1.)on Winter Hill. 2.) in Station Road "Woodview". 3.) Wood View House - Beaumont Rise. 4.) Possible 4th one in Glade Road.

Workhouse Lane- what is now Berwick Road and the lower part of Munday Dean Lane. It was indeed the road to the Workhouse.

Not found where you are looking for? See Where in Marlow was... Part 2 here and check out the Specific Shops,Streets etc option on the top drop down menu. 

Researched by Kathryn and Charlotte Day. 

To find out what everyday life was like for you ancestors living in these streets and houses, see the index of posts here

To find all mentions of your ancestor here use the A-Z person index in the top drop down menu.