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Road Names |
Many of the names of roads on the new Bramley
Green Development commemorate Angmering people from the past who have been
benefactors of the village or who gave their lives for their country during
World War 1 and World War 2 (see War Memorial). Below are
explanations for the names of some of the roads, not only on Bramley Green but
elsewhere in the village. Obvious names (Rectory Lane, Arundel Road, Station
Road, etc) have been omitted.
A number of
the name explanations come from Nicholas Gould's excellent booklet "Angmering
Place Names", a copy of which may be found in Angmering Library.
Click here for Angmering street map.
| Ashmore Avenue | Commemorates L/Cpl Alfred Lewis
Ashmore, 1st Worcester Regt. who was killed during WW1. |
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| Avenals, The | Named after Avenals Farm to the north of the road.
However, the name is extremely old and there is mention of Nicholas and William
Avenal in the 1296 and 1327 Subsidy Rolls for Angmering. |
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| Baker Way | Commemorates Leslie Baker
(1919-2010). Headmaster of William Older's CharitySchool (now the Library)
from 1955-1966. When the school closed in 1965/6, he became head of St
Margaret's C of E School in Arundel Road, retiring in 1982. He was also a
parish councillor for 31 years from 1961 to 1991 being chairman in 1977. When
he retired he was made a freeman of the parish, the first person to receive
such an honour. . |
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| Bentley Close | Commemorates Pte. Jack H
Bentley, 10th Bn., Royal Berkshire Regt. who was killed during WW2. |
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| Bewley Road | Commemorates Dr WF Bewley, CBE who was Chairman of
Angmering Parish Council between 1961 and 1974. He was also the first director
of the Glasshouse Crops Research Institute in Littlehampton. |
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| Bishopp Close | The Bishopp of Parham family owned much of the land
in Angmering from 1615, including Avenals Farm. Later, the Somerset family of
Castle Goring married into the Bishopp family. (Ecclesden Park) |
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| Butcher Close | Named after Walter Butcher of
Ecclesden Manor who was a great benefactor of the village after WW1. As an
example, he financed the building of the Village Hall in 1926. |
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| Carina Drive | Remembers Carina Nurseries a business operated there
in the latter half of the 20th Century. |
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| Chant Grove | George Chant was a shepherd at Avenals Farm for about 50 years and Chants (cottage) in the High Street is named after the family. (Ecclesden Park) | |
| Chantrelles, The | Named after a yellow
funnel-shaped mushroom of French origin grown on this site by the Darlington
Mushroom Company - see below. Actually the mushroom is
"Chanterelle". The naming of this small close in Angmering is either a
spelling mistake or a deliberate corruption of the name! |
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| Chantryfield Road | The road cuts across a field named Upper Chantry,
mentioned in the 1679 Manor Survey. |
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| Church Road | Arguably the most attractive old road in the village.
This seems an obvious name now because it leads from The Lamb Inn directly to
St Margaret's Church. However, it has had numerous names in the past including
Church Lane, Church Row, Church Walk, and Bakers Row. Many older residents of
today's village remember it being called Pooks Hill. The Bakers Row name came
about in the 19th Century due to most of the cottages being owned by the Baker
family. |
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| Cottrells, The | Named after an ancient field on the site which in
1400 was called "Cotereles croft". An 1321 Subsidy Roll return indicates that
there was a Richard Coterel living in East Preston. The houses were built "for
the working man" between 1912 and 1914 by Edwin Harris, the socialist builder,
parish & district councillor, JP, and local historian. |
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| Cow Lane | This is the byway that runs north from the A259 to
the equestrian bridge near The Spotted Cow. Until the 18th Century it was the
main road from Worthing (or more correctly Broadwater and Tarring at that time)
to Angmering. The Spotted Cow may have been named after this lane and not the
other way around as the pub did not exist until the mid-19th Century. |
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| Dappers Lane | The 1679 Manor Survey records that there were two
fields on the east side of the lane known as Great and Little Dappers. |
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| Darlington Close | Named after the Darlington
Mushroom Company who had nurseries on the site during the 20th
Century. |
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| Decoy Drive | Named after the decoy fishponds to the west. These
were constrcted in the 16th Century to lure and catch wild waterfowl. |
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| Dell, Drive (The Dell) | The 1679 Manor Survey records that in
this area was a field named "Charles Dell". The surname "Charles" is recorded
in the parish registers in the late 17th Century. "Dell Fields" are recorded in
the 1839 Tithe Survey. |
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| Dover Lane | This was originally known as Leather Bottle Lane
which referred to the beer house of that name which was there until demolished
on the instructions of the Duke of Norfolk in the 1850s. "Dover" is probably a
corruption of "dove" which was a word also used for pigeons. In his diary entry
dated 25 April 1768, John Tompkins makes reference to pigeons being taken from
the pigeonhouse at Michelgrove to The Dover, London and Arundel. Pigeons/Doves
were bred and eaten extensively in earlier times. |
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| Ecclesden Lane | One of Angmering's newest named roads although it is
an ancient lane. This was originally the far eastern end of the High Street
until it was cut off by the building of the by-pass. The northern section of
the lane was an extension of Cow Lane and was also once known as Miles Lane
after the Miles family who occupied Upper Ecclesden Farm in the 18th and 19th
Centuries. |
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| Fletcher's Way | Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher and
Lady Fletcher and Lady Fletcher provided considerable support for the village
and St Margaret's Church during the 50 years they resided at Ham Manor. Sir
Henry was a Sussex MP for 30 years from 1880. |
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| Furzefield Close | Named after the land known as Poling Furzefields
immediately to the north of the road. "Furze" is another name for "gorse". |
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| Grooms Close | To the north of the village was
some woodland called Grooms Copse. A landowner of that name is recorded in
Angmering in 1780. |
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| Groves, The | Named after the ancient field name given to that
detached piece of land bordering Weavers Hill linked to the main development.
(Ecclesden Park) |
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| Hammond Close | Commemorates James Hammond,
Royal Marines Artillery, who was killed during WW1. Members of the Hammond
family still live in the village |
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| Hangleton Lane | The word "Hangleton" is used much in the
Angmering/Ferring area and also for a settlement near Brighton. The origins of
the word are unknown but may mean "settlement on a slope". |
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| Henry Fletcher Close | Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher and
Lady Fletcher and Lady Fletcher provided considerable support for the village
and St Margaret's Church during the 50 years they resided at Ham Manor. Sir
Henry was a Sussex MP for 30 years from 1880. |
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| Highdown Close | Refers to nearby Highdown, the
hill immediately to the east of Angmering. |
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| Holmwood Way | John Holmwood was an 18thC tenant farmer of Avenals
Farm. (Ecclesden Park) |
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| Honey Lane | This is the lane leading to the
north pedestrian entrance to Bramley Green from the High Street. There is no
record of the name until early in the 20th century. Bees were kept at the top
of Honey Lane by the Roberts/Green family before 1925. |
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| Horton Place | Commemorates Pte George Horton,
13th Royal Sussex, who was killed during WW1. Members of the Horton family
still live in the village. |
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| Kinleside Way | The Rev. William Kinleside was
Rector of St Margaret's Church, Angmering for a remarkable 61 years from 1776
to 1836. His son was William Gratwicke Kinleside Gratwicke, owner of Ham Manor
and race-horse owner who he financed the rebuilding of Older's Charity School
and the parish church in 1853. |
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| Lansdowne Road / Way / Close | The late Joy Luck (from the millers
family) stated that her mother named Lansdowne Road after a road near her old
home in Southampton. The Luck family was the first to live in the road and Joy
Luck's father built their house in conjunction with George Peskett. |
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| Linfield Close | Commemorates Pte Joseph
Linfield, 1st Royal Sussex Regt., and Pte. William Denn Linfield, 7th Royal
Sussex Regt., who were both killed during WW1. |
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| Littlemead Close | Named after the ancient field
name where the Close is sited. (Ecclesden Park) |
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| Lloyd Goring Close | Named after Captain L Lloyd-Goring, a parish
councillor from about 1930 to 1950. |
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| Lucksfield Way | During the 19th and 20th
Centuries a windmill stood at the north of the Bramley Green Development which
was known as Luck's Mill after the family who were the last owners and
operators of the Mill. The base of the mill was demolished in 2001. |
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| Mill Road | Commemorates Jerusalem Mill which was located in Dell
Drive off Station Road but which which was moved in 1848. Station Road was
known as Mill Road in the early 19thC and the current Mill Road commemorates
the name. |
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| Nursery Road | Prior to the development of the
present housing, a considerable number of nurseries stood on Bramley Green.
Many sprang up in the 1920s growing the renowned Worthing tomato; others grew
flowers. By the 1960s, the majority has disappeared as a result of foreign
competition. |
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| Old Mill Lane | This was the lane (off the High Street) to
Luck's Mill (a post mill) that milled
flour up to 1942. Its roundhouse base was destroyed late in 2001. |
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| Older Way |
Commemorates William Older. In 1682 William Older, a yeoman
farmer, bequeathed £100 per annum for teaching and instructing poor
children of the parish and annual sums from rents from his property and lands
for maintaining a schoolmaster. From this Older's Charity School was built
which opened in 1682. It was re-built in 1853 and subsequently closed in 1965.
The building was re-opened as the village library in 1974. |
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| Orme Close | Named after the Rev. James Bond Orme, Rector of
Angmering from 1866 to 1913. |
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| Palmer Road | Commemorate two distinct but notable Angmering
families. Firstly, the was the Palmer
family who were lords of the manors of East and West Angmering and Ecclesden in
the 16th & 17th Centuries. Secondly was the Rev. Thomas L Palmer, Rector of
the parish from 1923 to 1938. Bearing in mind the road was constructed in the
1930s, it is almost certain that was intended to be named after the Rector. |
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| Pannett Lane | Juliet Pannett (1911-2005) was a prolific and
renowned society artist who lived for many years at Pound House near the
Spotted Cow. She also loved to paint scenes close to Avenals Farm. (Ecclesden
Park) |
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| Parsons Close | Commemorates Private Arthur
Parsons of the 8th Royal Sussex Regiment who was killed during WW1. |
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| Pechell Copse | The Pechell family, like the Somersets, married into
the Bishopp family and owned Avenals Farm. Many of the family, including Vice
Admiral Sir George Brooke Pechell are buried in St Margaret's churchyard.
(Ecclesden Park) |
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| Pound Way | At the top of Roundstone Lane
on the east side can be found Pound House. In old Angmering, strayed livestock
were impounded until their owners paid a fine to reclaim them. On the west
(Bramley Green) side of Roundstone Lane there was a large field known as Pound
Field. The pound itself occupied a small enclosure on the east side of this
field abutting Roundstone Lane. |
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| Reed Copse | Albert Reed was shepherd for many years at Avenals
Farm. See his photo with his dog Petal in The Lamb. (Ecclesden Park) |
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| Roman Avenue | Immediately prior to the
construction of the Bramley Green Development, archaeologists uncovered the
remains of Roman habitation on the site - see our article
"Archaeology on Bramley Green".
Additionally, Angmering has the remains of a large Roman villa to the west of
the parish - see our article "Angmering Roman Villa". |
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| Roundstone Lane | The road name is at least two
hundred years old. The 'round stone' after which the road was named was a
mill-stone which lay on the grass by the crossroads at the southern end of the
lane (about where the level crossing is now) but it had disappeared by the
early 20th Century. The mill-stone is commemorated on the sign of the public
house (built c. 1930) on the A259 at the bottom end of the lane
. Legend has it that the mill-stone rolled down the hill from one of the
mills on Highdown killing a man on the Worthing Road! |
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| Selden Lane | The west side of the lane is in Angmering and the
east side is in Patching. It runs north from The Fox Inn. Lane probably gets
its name from Selden Farm further up the road which in turn undoubtedly got its
name from the Selden family who lived in Patching and Angmering in the 16th
& 17th Centuries and perhaps much earlier. The 1296 Subsidy Roll records
the name of a "Willmo de Selkedon" living nearby at Ecclesden, "Willo fil' Rici
de Selkeden" in the 1332 Roll, and William and John Selden in the 1524 Roll for
West Angmering. |
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| Shardeloes Road | This is a strange one. Frank Charles Ells was
chairman of the parish council between 1955 and 1961. Perhaps he was a modest
man and did not want a road named after him, but his house in The Thatchway was
named "Shardeloes" and the road name probably originated from that. There is a
mansion called Shardeloes near Amersham, Bucks which may have some
connection. |
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| Stubbs Hill | While not an official road name, this is the name
still used by older people who have lived most of their lives in the village to
describe the hill that runs up the High Street from The Square. The name is
derived from the drapers shop, GW Stubbs, which operated from 1922 to the 1950s
where Winchester House is today. |
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| Swillage Lane | This has probably nothing to do with pigs. Swillage
was a fairly common name long ago for a wet and muddy place. This no doubt was
an apt description of our Swillage Lane before it was metalled, where water
must have built up at the bottom of the steep hill. |
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| Teulon Court | Named after the architect Samuel Sanders Teulon
(1812-1873) who was responsible for the substantial re-building of St
Margaret's Church, Angmering, in 1852/3. |
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| Thatchway, The | Construction of houses in the road started in the
late 1930s but WW2 interrupted their completion. A number of the earlier houses
were thatched which may be a clue to the road's name. |
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| Tyletts Close | Named after the ancient field
name where the Close is sited. (Ecclesden Park) |
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| Water Lane | In the 19th Century, a stream ran from Patching, down
Water Lane and through the centre of the village, eventually finding its way
into the River Arun. This stream was diverted into a culvert beneath the
village where it still runs today. Water Lane initially only went as far as
Dappers Lane but about 1820 it was extended to Patching to make a through route
for the London to Littlehampton stagecoaches. |
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| Weavers Hill / Ring | There are many references in Angmering's history to a
weaving industry which seems to have centred on Weavers Hill. In the field at
the top of the hill on the west side, a row of houses existed up to about 1800;
this was called "Shoot Shuttle Row". |
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| Whitfield Close | Commemorates L/S Ernest
Whitfield, DCM, MM(Fr), of HMS Alert, who was killed during WW1 |
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| Wilkinson Close | Commemorates Thomas Wilkinson
known as "Old Wilkie" who was landlord of the Lamb Inn, Angmering for 57 years.
He first became licensee in 1850. |
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| William Older's Road |
In 1682 William Older, a yeoman farmer,
bequeathed £100 per annum for teaching and instructing poor children of
the parish and annual sums from rents from his property and lands for
maintaining a schoolmaster. From this Older's Charity School was built which
opened in 1682. It was re-built in 1853 and subsequently closed in 1965. The
building was re-opened as the village library in 1974. |
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| Windmill Close | This could refer to one of two old windmills that used to work nearby. The closest (Jerusalem Mill) was located in Dell Drive off Station Road which was moved in 1848. It is believed its nearby storage barn was what now forms the basis of the Baptist Church in Station Road. The other mill was Luck's Mill (a post mill) that milled flour up to 1942 and which was located at the end of Old Mill Lane off the High Street. Its roundhouse base was destroyed late in 2001. (see also Lucksfield Way above) |
Swanbourne Park
All the roads on Swanbourne Park are named after England Rugby internationals who died during the First World War.
NA Rogers-Davis
Last updated 25 July 2023