Origins of Local Place Names
Origins of Local Place Names, by Anthony Poulton-Smith.
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Geographical
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Streets
- Anglers Lane
- Acorn Way
- Arundel Drive
- Arnhem Terrace
- Avondale Road
- Badger Close
- Bankfield Drive
- Beeches Avenue
- Borrowash bypass
- Borrowfield Road
- Borrowash Road
- Brockley
- Brunswood Close
- Cambridge Street
- Chaffinch Close
- Chapel Lane
- Chapel Street
- Cherry Tree Hill
- Church Hill
- Church Street
- Coxon Street
- Croft Close
- Dale Road
- Derby Road
- Drury Avenue
- Gladstone Road
- Gravel Pit Lane
- Edmund Road
- Hall Dyke
- Hamilton Road
- Hill Close
- Huntley Avenue
- Kirkleys Avenue
- Locko Road
- Lodge Lane
- Lousie Greaves Lane
- Marl Pit Close
- Megaloughton Lane
- Merchant Avenue
- Milldale Road
- Mill Row
- Moor End
- Moor Street
- Moult Avenue
- Nottingham Road
- Oxford Street
- Park Road
- Pheasant Fields Road
- Poplar Avenue
- Potter Street
- Reader Street
- Royal Hill Road
- Sancroft Road
- Sandringham Drive
- Sants Row
- Sitwell Street
- Station Road
- Stoney Lane
- Sunningdale Avenue
- Vancouver Avenue
- West Road
- Willowcroft Road
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- Booker
- Bostock
- Brighouse
- Brinsley
- Cade
- Carrington
- Clark
- Cope
- Coxon
- Davis
- Dixon
- Douglass
- Dunnicliff
- Elson
- Fowler
- Franks
- Gardiner
- Gascoigne
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- Hill
- Holbrook
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- Hooley
- Kenedy
- King
- Land
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- Lewty
- Lilly
- Littlewood
- Lowe
- Maddocks
- Martin
- Mather
- Meakin
- Monton
- Osborne
- Osbiston
- Piggin
- Porter
- Priestland
- Ranby
- Seale
- Sims
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- Slater
- Stanton
- Stevens
- Stone
- Stubbs
- Thompson
- Three from Oz
- Topham
- Walker-Smith
- Ward
- Watts
- Werburgh
- Wheatley
- White
- Whiteman
- Wilmot
- Winfield
- Woodhead
- Wright
- Woolley
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Sports Teams
- British Celanese Intermediate under 18s Team
- British Celanese Lawn Tennis Club
- British Celanese Weaving Team (Open Age)
- Charity Match
- Derby Community Football League
- Fishing
- Soller Cup
- Spondon Athletic Football Club
- Spondon Bowls Club
- Spondon Church Boys Football Club
- Spondon Cricket Club
- Spondon Ladies Football Team
- Spondon Power Station
- Spondon Rangers
- Spondon Rovers Football Club
- Spondon Rovers Juniors Football Club
- Spondon St Werburgh's Church Bible Class Football Team
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Families
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Ripley Morris Men
Meeting Date (OLD)
Ripley Morris Men, with Mick Buckley. Talk and demonstration.
Terror from the skies
Meeting Date (OLD)
Terror from the Skies: the night the Zeppelins came, by Stephen Flinders
AGM and Speaker
Meeting Date (OLD)
AGM, followed by a talk by Doreen Taylor, a SHS member.
Walker Lane: 19th Century Derby Whitechapel
Meeting Date (OLD)
Walker Lane: 19th Century Derby Whitechapel, by Jane Whitaker