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Street Names Based on Location
Badbury Close,
Folly View Crescent,
Meadow Way,
Nursery View,
Sandsview,
Town End Road,
Westland Road,
Windy Ridge.
Church Street - obviously indicates that it runs by the parish church.
Crown Yard* - a small yard behind the Crown Hotel which was called the Crown Yard and which had a few small cottages there in the middle of the 19th century.
Coach Lane - had been known by the name of Coach House Lane and this is more appropriate as it seems too narrow for coaches to pass through it.
Foundry Lane* - led from Marlborough Street. The foundry it led to was owned by a man called Frank Lane.
Pound Close* - off Gloucester Street, near the junction with Lechlade Road there is a small lane which used to be known as Pound Close, probably after the pound where stray animals were kept, which was nearby. It is referred to by this name in deeds of the 17th and 18th centuries and then in a deed of 1876 it is referred to as Parsonage Lane.
Queens Arms Yard* - behind the Queens Arms public house in Coxwell Street.
Station Road - was originally Butts Road but at the advent of the railway it was renamed Station Road as far as the station and Butts Road thereafter. The only part of Station Road now remaining is from the Coxwell Road/Gravel Walk crossroads up to The Swan public house and then it becomes Park Road.
Swan Lane - in a deed of 1811 was called The Lane. It was given its present name after the Swan public house which was at the junction with London Street.
Tan Yard Lane* & Chapel Walk* - both led off Bromsgrove, one to a tan yard and the other to the Strict Baptist's Chapel.
White Hart Walk - the White Hart public house which stood on the corner of the Gravel Walk/ Marlborough Street crossroads. Windmill Lane* - mentioned in the census of 1841, was by a windmill on Stanford Road.
Commemorative College Row* - mentioned in the census of 1181, was probably so called after Oriel College which owned a large amount of land in and around the town.
Ferendune Court - the Saxon name for Faringdon was fearn - fern-covered, and dun - hill. Faringdon has been spelt in many different ways over the centuries including Farendon, Chepyngfarendon and Farington.
Eagles - named after the Eagle Motors car repair workshop and stores which was at the junction of the Eagles and Park Road.
Harness Lane* - first mentioned in 1551. It was the first part of Southampton Street where it exited from the Market Place, possibly named from the goods produced there.
Marines Drive - during World War II the Royal Marines had a camp there.
Old Sawmills Road - named after the timber sawmills which was in Butts Road, now Park Road, from about the 1890's to 1961.
Regent Mews - the Regent cinema used to be on the site.

* indicates streets and names no longer extant.

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