Road off west side of Carshalton Road, just south of Mitcham Junction station. This road then turns to the northwest, where houses are built on the west side, and numbered odd from 1 to 31. See aerial view on Bing Maps.
A house called Aspen Cottage was where this road now turns, as seen on this 1910 map. The road is named after this cottage.
1910 OS map
Occupants of Aspen Cottage in 1901 were Henry Band, 67, his wife Martha, 54, their daughter Ellen, 34, and son Arthur, 25.
1953 OS map
Road without houses that leads off the west side of Carshalton Road, south of Drake Road and north of The Goat Inn at Beddington Corner. It divides the terraces of houses in Carshalton Road between numbers 23 on the north side and number 24 on the south side. Numbers 124 to 53 Carshalton Road was originally called Tramway Terrace.
This 1866 OS map shows an unnamed lane leading to Willow Cottage.
1866 OS map
The 1894 OS map shows the road named as Arney’s Lane, leading to willow Lodge. The name refers to the gelatine makers Arney & Company, and the lane lead to where Gerard Arney lived, according to Eric Montague.
1894 OS map
The road is, in 2020, an unmade, private road used for parking by residents of nearby houses. It leads to the footpath at the back of the houses that is shown on earlier maps as Tramway Path.
Maps are reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
Mitcham History Notes 