Noel Park - Derivation of Street Names

Derivation of Street Names

Ashley Crescent

Evelyn Ashley, MP for Isle of Wight, son of Lord Shaftesbury and Chairman of the Artizans Company

Buller Road

Redvers Buller, winner of the Victoria Cross at the Battle of Hlobane, 1879

Darwin Road

Charles Darwin, naturalist and early investor in the Artizans Company

Dovecote Avenue

On the site of the original Duckett's (Dovecote) Manor, by this time demolished

Farrant Avenue

Sir Richard Farrant, Deputy Chairman of the Artizans Company 1881-1906

Gladstone Avenue

William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister at the time of the opening of Noel Park

Hewitt Avenue

Thomas Hewitt QC, Director of the Artizans Company 1895-1917

Lymington Avenue

Viscount Lymington, Director of the Artizans Company 1883-1891

Mark Road

Mark H Judge, Director of the Artizans Company 1878-1922

Maurice Avenue

Maurice Powell, Director of the Artizans Company 1880-1914

Morley Avenue

Samuel Morley, MP for Bristol and Director of the Artizans Company 1877-1880

Moselle Avenue

Runs above the culverted River Moselle

Pelham Road

T W Pelham, Director of the Artizans Company 1880-1894

Redvers Road

Redvers Buller (see Buller Road, above)

Russell Avenue

John Russell, former Liberal Prime Minister

Salisbury Road

Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, leader of the Conservative Party

Vincent Road

Unknown; Welch speculates from Rev. Henry Vincent Le Bas, the only member of the Noel Park Committee at the time of opening not known to have had a street named for him