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Ryde Street Names

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Brunswick Place or Street Ryde

On a 1866 map shown as Brunswick Place and on a 1909 map as Brunswick Street, post WW1 Station Road and so it remains today.

Probably changed during WW1 to remove the German connection.

Cemetery Street, Ryde (1866/1897)

Cemetery Street is shown on the 1866 and 1897 OS maps for today's Milligan Road. As Ryde Cemetery only opened in 1842, it can only have been know as Cemetery Street from that date.

Church Street, Swanmore, Ryde

Church Street, Swanmore is shown on OS maps from 1862 to 1946 for today's St Michael's Avenue.

Clay Lane/Rope Walk, Ryde

The old Coastguard Station at Ryde, between the modern day Esplanade and Castle Street, was recorded in the 1851 as being on Clay Lane; later the lane was known as the Rope Walk and more recently ....

Pier Street, Ryde

Pier Street, Ryde no longer exists. Until the 1930's, Pier Street was formed at the western end of the current Esplanade by a range of buildings on the sea side, from opposite the bottom of ....

Queens Road, Ryde

Queens Road Ryde was previously Newport Road (being the road to Newport) as shown on the 1866 OS map, the 1898 OS map shows Queens Road from West Street westward, the section from West Street to ....

Riboleau Street

Named after Vice-Admiral Peter Ribouleau (1768-1847) who had his county house there (St John's Lodge - demolished early 1900's).

Union Street, Ryde

Although Union Street does join Upper and Lower Ryde, it was actully named after the 1804 Act of Union.

West Street, Ryde

West Street Ryde is shown on the 1866 OS map as between Spencer Road and Newport Road (now Street), the road did not extend southwards in front of the east end of All Saints church. The 1898 OS ....


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