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Blandford Avenue

Built by Warren and Wood 1920s and named for a town in Warren’s home county of Dorset.

Cranbourne Avenue

Built by Warren and Wood 1920s and named for a town in Warren’s home county of Dorset.

Dorset Avenue

Built by Warren and Wood 1920s and named for Warren’s home county of Dorset.

Norwood Lane

1895 skeleton of mammoth found. Also flint implements

Norwood Green 

So called in 1724, named from ‘Northuudo’ 832, ‘Northwude’ 1235, ‘Norwode’ 1453, that is 'the northern wood', from Old English. Perhaps so named in relation to the parish of Heston

Beautifully wooded common surrounded by groups of rustic houses, with a tiny church at one corner. First mentioned in a will of 832 when the manor was left to the Archbishop of Canterbury.  Elm trees lined the green but were cut down in 1928 for road widening and the pond was filled in.

Friars Lawn

The Grange

Norwood Court. Demolished

Bridge Hall. Demolished.

Norwood House. Demolished 1927 and land sold in small plots. General Housing Co, developments.

Norwood Road

196-198

White Swan

The Wolf

Frogmore Green, absorbed into Norwood Green in the 19th

Shaftesbury Road

Built by Warren and Wood 1920s and named for a town in Warren’s home county of Dorset.

Sherbourne Avenue

Built by Warren and Wood 1920s and named for a town in Warren’s home county of Dorset.

Tentelow Lane

St.Mary the Virgin. Evidence of Norman work. Mid 14th.

Norwood Hall. Designed by Soane for a friend in 1803.  Extended by the Unwin family in the 19th. Walled gardens. In the 1920s the Unwins sold off land belonging to the hall for building to Warren and Wood.  The hall itself was sold to Middlesex County Council as a horticultural institute which has since moved to Capel Manor and the Hall become a tertiary college.

Vine Cottage

Norwood free school house, 1767

Plough Inn. Established in the 14th for labourers building the church.

Norwood Lodge

Norwood,

Detail of manor

Norwood Vitriol Works, sulphuric acid. Houlder William, Son & Co., 1893

Park with glazed fountain, Martinware, Middlesex County Council open space

Wimbourne Avenue

Built by Warren and Wood 1920s and named for a town in Warren’s home county of Dorset.



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