Category Archives: Roads

Moffat Gardens

No longer exists.

A terrace of 8 houses built in 1933/4. It hadn’t a tarmac road which was never adopted by the council.

In around 1990 it was compulsory purchased by Merton Council for a link road scheme to connect Church Road to Morden Road. This scheme was abandoned by a subsequent Labour council.

Where the houses were, is now Hallowfield Way.

From Urban District of Mitcham council minutes, volume XIX, 1933-1934, pages 948-9, Messrs. Chart, Son and Reading asked for the name Moffat Gardens in place of Angel Close, the original name for the new road leading to Church Road from Messrs. Drewett’s Angel’s Farm.

Maps

Wide Way

Road that runs from the crossroads at its north end with Manor Road, Rowan Road and Northborough Road, south-easterly to the roundabout with Recreation Way, South Lodge Avenue, Chestnut Grove and Sherwood Park Road. See Open Street Map.

1954 OS map

Temporary housing using Nissen Huts was on the south side of the road until 1960.


Maps are reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.