Road names
NEW: Stroud District Council have published a street names notice for road names in what will be the Bellway part of Phase 4. You can see this on their website. There is opportunity to object if you don't think the names accord with street naming policy.
This page explains the source of the road names within Hunts Grove. These are chosen by Stroud District Council who seek suggestions from the Parish Council and developers.
The village was designed as a “garden village” with lots of open space so it makes sense that many of the names come from the natural world. The Parish Council has chosen names linked to local history where we have made suggestions for Phases 3 and 4.
You can see maps of showing the names for Phase 4 streets: where Crest are currently building, the upcoming Bellway area and the last bit of Phase 4.
NB. Roads marked with an * pre-date the new build Hunts Grove development. Roads marked with a ^ are still under construction and aren’t open.
Natural world
| Animals and insects |
- Lutra Close (type of otter)
- Pine Marten Close
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- Boloria Close (type of butterfly)
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| Birds |
- Brambling Way
- Crossbill Close
- Greenfinch Close
- Harrier Way
- Nightingale Close
- Nuthatch Lane
- Pipit Close
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- Red Kite Rise
- Sheldrake Lane
- Siskin Way
- Tawny Close
- Warbler Close
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| Plants |
- Cranes Bill Mead (another name for Geraniums)
- Goosefoot Lane
- Hawthorn Close
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- Knotgrass Way
- Lime Tree Avenue
- Redshank Rise
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| Trees |
- Acorn Way
- Blackthorn Way
- Oak View
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- Rowan Way
- Spindle Way
- Willow Edge
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Places
- Bath Road*. Part of the old road towards Bath and Standish, replaced by the dual carriageway up to the M5 junction.
- Bristol Road*. Part of the old A38 road to Bristol, replaced by the dual carriageway.
- Colethrope Way. Named after Colethrop Farm, which is the land that most of the Hunts Grove development has been built on.
- Haresfield Lane*. The road to Haresfield.
- Hunts Grove Drive. Named after the village and the wood from which the village takes its name.
- Shorn Brook Close. Named after the brook running through the new build development.
Local history
With Hunts Grove mostly being a new build development on farmland there is reasonably little known history. The oldest building is the farmhouse, and then there were some smithys at the junction of Haresfield Lane and Bristol Road. When making suggestions to Stroud District Council for road names on Phases 3 and 4, we wanted to draw on the history we know of for Hunts Grove as well as that of the wider area.
| Residents of Colethrop Farm |
Using censuses and other records, we identified families who lived in the farm from 1841 through to the 1970s, and proposed many of these for road names.
- Lewis Lane^. The Lewis family lived at the farm at the time of the Tithe survey in 1839 and farmed most of the area what is now Hunts Grove. Matthew Lewis and his wife Ellen had four known daughters Lorenza, Susan Ellen, Laura, and Lucretia. The family remained at the farm in 1851 but by 1861 the farm had passed to Susan Ellen and her husband Daniel Heaven who remained until at least 1881. Susan Ellen and Daniel had at least 9 children Prudence, Matthew, Laura, Ada, Tom/Daniel, Lauratia Minnie, Ernest, Florence and Frank.
- Theyer Close^. By 1901, Henry A Theyer was living at Colethrop Farm with his wife Elizabeth and children Edward (aged 20), Ida (18) and Horace (16) (who were all born in Australia) and daughter Ethel (5 – born in Gloucestershire.
- Chamberlayne Way^. Henry and Elizabeth Chamberlayne had taken over farming at Colethrop Farm by 1911, living there with five of their at least nine children. Their son Sydney appears to have taken over the farm and run it until at least 1963.
- Godsell Lane^. Two of the Chamberlayne children married Godsell siblings. Catherine J Godsell married Herbert in 1916 and her older brother Thomas married Bessie in 1918. Thomas and Bessie were farming at Eastington and then Coaley before Bessie died in 1927. They were the parents of Geoffrey (born 1920) and Alec Godsell (1922). The boys were raised at Colethrop Farm by their Chamberlayne relatives and Alec later took on the Farm and was there in 1974. His brother Geoffrey was then Foreign Affairs Editor at the Christian Science Monitor newspaper in the US and had previously been a BBC Correspondence. There is an obituary of Alec at http://www.oldrendcombian.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2011.pdf
In 1901, James and Clara Pope were living at the farm with their 4 children.
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| Other local residents |
- Niblett Close. The Niblett family was a significant local landowner from 1808, owning much of what is now Hunts Grove, including Colethrop Farm which they leased to different families.
Other than the farm, in 1839 there were only three houses in or on the boundary of what is now Hunts Grove. Two of these were owned and occupied in 1839 by the Smith family and the Jones family.
- Woodhouse Way^. Joseph Woodhouse was the occupier of a cottage opposite the end of Haresfield Lane in 1839 and is recorded in the 1841 census living there with his wife Harriotte and daughter, also Harriotte/Harriet. The daughter died aged 3 in late 1843 and is buried in St Nicholas, Hardwicke. The site of their cottage is now under the A38 and was just outside our parish boundary but they were part of the small community here.
- Coole Lane^. Named after Jasper Coole who owned the cottage occupied by the Woodhouse family.
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| Field names |
These come from a 1839 survey which recorded the owners and occupiers of all plots of land in the area. This was part of a nationwide reform of the Tithe system, an early form of tax paid to landowners or the local church. The Gloucestershire County Council Archives website has links to the map showing field numbers and to the database linking those numbers to names of occupiers, owners and fields.
- Elgeston Edge^. There were fields named Little Elgeston and Great Elgeston in the area where this road will be.
- Baldwins Field^. The road runs through a field called Baldwin’s Field. There were a series of fields called Baldwin’s Orchard, Baldwin’s Leys, and Baldwin’s Close. These fields covered most of what is Phase 4.
This survey was also the source of the name The Patches for the open space around the brook near the school, some of which was known as Walkes Patches.
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| Other historical and local |
- Carbonel Close. Thomas Carbonel was from Hardwicke and was Abbot of Gloucester Abbey (now the Cathedral) from 1179-1205.
- Farley Way. Named after Farley Manor, a Hardwicke farm recorded in the 1800s.
- Hoskareslo Close. Hoskareslo was the local name for the ancient Gloucester-Bristol road (which became the A38) as it ran through Haresfield, recorded in 1363.
- Humphrey Cook Way^. Named after a previous chair of Haresfield Parish Council who spent a lot of effort on the Hunts Grove project. Hunts Grove Parish was created from parts of Haresfield and Hardwicke in 2021.
- Rudge Close. Named after an historic Hardwicke farm Rudge Manor, recorded in the 1800s.
- Sabrina Close. Hardwicke and Haresfield lie close to the River Severn. The River Severn was known to the Romans as Sabrina.
- Velthouse Close. Named after an historic Hardwicke farm, first recorded in 1649.
- Wheatenhurst Way. Named after the administrative district that Hardwicke and Haresfield belonged to between 1837 and 1937.
- Whitstone Rise. Named after the Whitstone Hundred, a historical administrative area covering Hardwicke, Haresfield, Quedgeley, Stonehouse and other surrounding areas. The Hundred was recorded in the Domesday Book.
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Other/unknown
- Brookes Close.
- Davy Way.
- Hunters Way.
- Marconi Drive.
- Quadrant Way. Named for the business park development it is part of.
