While putting together list of street names in Wheaton Aston I started to wonder why some had the suffix lane and some street and some road and others - so I investigated. This is what I found and how the suffixes relate to Wheaton Aston. I have taken the definitions from the Oxford English Dictionary. There are 53 different names in Wheaton Aston and the number in brackets show how many there are with that suffix.
The ones in Whaton Aston are :- Lane, Close, Road, Drive, Street, Place, Green, Croft, Way, Grove, Gardens, End, Crescent, Bank and no suffix at all.
These are the minor roads after roads and streets. A lane is a narrow way between hedges or banks or a narrow road or street between houses or a wall. Lanes make up the biggest group in Wheaton Aston. Many at one time would have had fields either side where there are now houses. The prefix gives some indication of what the locality is like (Dirty lane) or what it was used for (Mill lane), where it leads, for or perhaps who owned the land around it. Most of the lanes in Wheaton Aston were named well before the housing boom of the1960s,
Bellhurst Lane
Brick Kiln Lane
Broadholes Lane
Dirty Lane
Downford Lane
Fenton House Lane
Filter Lane
Frog Lane
Greenhill Lane
Magazine Lane
Malthouse Lane
Micklemoor Lane
Mill Lane
Pinfold Lane
Sowdley Lane
Starkeys Lane
Stockings Lane
Timber Pit Lane
A close is an enclosed place with only one way in and out or in other words a cul-de-sac. This makes up the second largest group in Wheaton Aston and they were all named after 1960.
Beech Close
Borden Close
Downford Close
Ivetsey Close
Marston Close
Meadow Close
Oaksmoor Close
Pinfold Close
Primrose Close
An ordinary line of communication between places used by horses, travellors on foot or vehicles. A road is used in two ways. The first is used is for the links between places so if you take the Lapley Road it will take you towards Lapley. There is also Ivetsey Road and Marston Road which takes care of the three main routes into and out of the village. The other two are Hawthorne Road and and School Road which are not distant villages but important local places.
The second is for a generic suffix which doesn't lead any where in particular. The only one in Wheaton Aston is Burford Road which is fact a cul-de-sac. Perhaps it should be remamed Burford Close or Burford Croft.
Burford Road
Hawthorne Road
Ivetsey Road
Lapley Road
Marston Road
School Road
A street is a paved road. This is a road in a town or village that is comparatively wide - as compared to a lane and is usually running between two lines of Houses or shops. There are only two in Wheaton and togeher they make up the main route through the village. The other use for Street is for roman roads - such as Watling Street which runs just south of Wheaton Aston
High Street
Long Street
A Carriage Road - so it would imply that there is a building of some note at the end
Hawthorne Drive
Yew Tree Drive
Trevitt Place
A green is covered with herbiage or foliage
Sowdley Green
A pieces of enclosed ground used for tillage or pasture or a small piece of arable land attached to a house. There are 2 in Wheaton Aston
Fenton Croft
Marson Croft
A road or path
Caspian way
A small wood - a group of trees affording shade.
Ash Grove
A Garden is (fairly obvious I know) an enclosed piece of ground devoted to the cultivation of flowers, fruit and vegetables. Meadow Croft Gardens is almost described twice as a croft is very similar in meaning.
Coach Gardens
Meadowcroft Gardens
Badgers End
A convexo-concave figure the shape of the waxing waning moon during the first or last quarter. The two ends of the crescent usually emerge onto the same road.
Ashleigh Cresent
Chapel Bank
The Cobbles
Cranbrooks
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