Tag Archives: Eldertree Way

Eldertree Place

A cul-de-sac off Eldertree Way, with 16 houses, accessible by footpath only.

1952 OS map

The houses are numbered odd on its left side, from 1 to 15, and even on the right side from 2 to 16. Royal Mail website says the houses all have the postcode CR4 1AH.

Possibly built around 1930/1. There is an Electoral register for 1932, whose occupants were:

1, Arthur and Violet NEAL
3, Norman Henry and Emily STEVENSON
4, John and Constance Victoria TOWNSON
5, William and Margaretta THOMAS
6, George Albert and Florence Louisa BENNETT
7, Harry Henry and Harriet Eliza TIBBLES
8, Thomas James and Violet May CUMPPER
9, Alfred and Elizabeth TIMMS
10, Frederick and Ann Norah Ellen HOOK
11, Thomas Henry and Dorothy RICHARDSON
12, Alfred Herbert and Annie Rebecca FREEMAN
13, William and Catherine THURSTING
14, Reginald and Doris WOOD
15, George William and Laura Alice COOPER
16, William and Kate Leila THOMPSON


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

Eldertree, Oakleigh, Warminster, Woodside and Woodstock Way

An estate of roads named in 1927 by the council:

From the minutes of the Mitcham Urban District Council
Highways and Buildings Committee
Tuesday, 6th December, 1927
Page 528

10. Naming of Roads – It was Resolved, that an order be made under Section 18 of the Public Health Act, 1925, assigning the following names to streets in the district:-

Woodstock Way, Warminster Way, Eldertree Way, Woodside Way, Oakleigh Way. Roads on new estate laid out out by Messrs Waites, adjoining Grove Road.

2016 Open Street Map view of the Way roads

2016 Open Street Map view of the Way roads


Minutes of meetings held by the Mitcham Urban District Council are available on request from the Merton Heritage and Local Studies Centre at Morden Library.