Official Guide to North Walsham 2023-2024
Everything you need to know about North Walsham and the local area for visitors and residents alike in a full colour, 160 page book. Up to date information on groups, services, businesses, events and stuff to see in the North Walsham area along with extensive history of the town in words and photos.
Everything you need to know about North Walsham and the local area for visitors and residents alike in a full colour, 160 page book. Up to date information on groups, services, businesses, events and stuff to see in the North Walsham area along with extensive history of the town in words and photos.
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Historical North Walsham 137
this has now been piped in. The developers of some of the land in this area felt that the name
needed clarifying and should be more attractive and the former Urban District Council decided
to call it Northfield Road because of its location on the north side. St. Mary’s Way, leading off this
road, was a short street named after the church which previously stood on the site of the present
parish church.
On some older maps Bluebell Road was shown as Stone Road and this was most likely because
it lead to the piece of land on which the Bluebell Pond is now located, which was land allocated
to the Surveyor of the Highways for digging out stone and gravel to maintain the roads in the
parish. Subsequently it was regarded as Bluebell Road (leading to the Bluebell public house) and
the former Urban District Council decided this was the most used name and most acceptable.
In more recent times there has been a tendency to name new roads after varieties of trees and
plants, such as Sycamore Close, Birch Close, Acorn Road, Fern Drive, Chestnut Avenue, Campion
Close and Primrose Way, the latter four leading off Plantation Road.
It may also be interesting to note that when the Council demolished many of the old cottages and
houses in the former Dog Yard area it did not wish to continue with that name, since the old pub
was one of the buildings demolished and it was decided to name the redevelopment as Reeves
Court, because the Town Reeve’s house was located in what is now Bacton Road and Cedar Court,
which was adjacent to the old house named The Cedars which was purchased for council offices
by the Urban District Council.
The street names selected by the former Urban District Council on the Melbourne housing site
may be interesting, since some of the land was glebe land and was owned, strangely enough, by
the Vicar of Ashmanaugh. Because of this, one of the flat developments was named Glebe Court.
Melbourne Road was selected because it lead from Bacton Road towards Melbourne Farm, which
is now the chalet and caravan site. The owner of the farm for many years was Mr. Stanley, a long
serving county and district councillor and so one of the other roads was named Stanley Road.
R.V. Nash (Ron Nash) , Town Clerk 28.6.93
Mundesley Road c1920.
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