| Abbots Walk |
When the Buckland housing estate was laid out soon after the First World War it was at first suggested that the new streets should be given the names of local notables. Miss L. Bamford a member of the housing committee proposed however that they should commemorate the pilgrims who in the middle ages passed through Dover in their hundreds to and from Canterbury. This suggestion was adopted and the streets were given names from Chaucers Canterbury Tales each being the name of one of the pilgrims whose story appears in Chaucers work. |
| Adelaide Crescent |
One of numerous streets on the corporations Buckland Valley housing estate which were to commemorate the part they played in the 1939-45 war and the fact that they, in common with the whole free world had taken such an interest in the wartime fortunes of Dover the front line town. |
| Adrian Street |
Once named Upwall or Above-Wall, the latter name being used in the Vestry books of St. Marys church as far back as 1639. It Was probably because the Street was formed on ground on the hill above a wall, which had been built to strengthen the face of the cliff just below |
| Albany Place |
This place was arranged and built upon by Mr. Adcock about the time that the Duke of Albany came to visit his brother the Duke of Connaught, who was stationed in Dover. It was the builders way of honouring two of Her Majestys sons. |
| Albert Road |
This road was planned when the Prince Consort died (1861) and named in his honour. The property belongs to the government department called Woods and Forests and let by them in building leases. |
| Alberta Way |
The housing committee appointed to deal with naming of the new streets being created on the Buckland Valley and Green Lane Farm Estates in the year 1945 recommended names associated with the Empire which has sent frequent food parcels for distribution in the town and money donated to local funds during the war. Alberta being the province of north-west Canada gave its name to this street. |
| Albion Place |
Which has now disappeared was a spacious court opening of Chapel Place, now in turn about to pass into oblivion. Nearby stood a public house called the Albion later re-named the Carpenters Arms and the builder chose the name Albion. |
| Alexandra Place |
Princess Alexandra daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark married the Prince of Wales (afterwards King Edward VII) in 1863 about ten years before the houses in this road were built. |
| Alfred Road |
Development of the street began in the last years of the 19th century it is not sure whether it was decided to continue the practice of naming the streets after famous Kings of Saxon days or whether the Alfred had more prosaic origins. |
| Alma Place |
Was the original name for a row of cottages, which later became merged into the eastern part of Charlton Green and have since disappeared completely. The cottages were built at the time of the Crimean War when the Battle of Alma was in everyone's mind. |
| Anselm Road |
Anselm was an Archbishop of Canterbury who was in conflict with William Rufus son of the Conqueror on the question of ecclesiastical rights. Exiled for a time he regained power under Henry I. and died at Canterbury. He was canonised in 1494. |
| Approach Road |
Was at first considered part of Manor Road, but when the inconvenience and confusion caused by this arrangement became apparent a few years before the First World War, the houses in Manor Road were re-numbered and Approach Road was given a name of its own which it took from a pair of cottages built in the approach to Manor Road. |
| Archcliffe Road |
On 30th August 1878 a letter was received from the Royal Engineers office stating that the War Department was completing the names of the roads at the Heights, and as there appears no distinct name for that piece of road past Archliffe Fort it was suggested to call it Archcliffe Road or Archcliffe Avenue |
| Armourers Walk |
Named after the armours that made the suits of armour for the Knights in the Middle Ages. |
| Arthurs Place |
War damage has obliterated this and a number of other narrow streets in the St. James Street area. It was another of the local public places to which a famous Lord Warden Arthur Wellesley Wellington gave his name. |
| Astley Avenue |
This street commemorates Dr. E. F. Astley, a prominent Dover citizen of the 19th century who gave the town the organ in Connaught Hall and was chairman of the original committee responsible for laying out the first part of Connaught Park. He was Mayor 1858-9 during which time he opened at his own expense an Isolation Hospital at Edred Road Tower Hamlets. |
| Astor Avenue |
Was opened in 1923 by the Hon. J. J. Astor M. P. for Dover linking Tower Hamlets with Elms Vale and this was constructed at a cost of 14,000. |
| Ashen Tree Lane |
So called from a large ash tree, which for many years flourished in the garden adjoining. |
| Athol Terrace |
A Scottish lady, Mrs. Macintyre, was living at East Cliff when these houses were built. She became the purchaser of No. 3 and suggested the name for the whole row, having the well-known Blair Athol of her native land in her mind at the time. |
| Buckland Crescent |
After the largest city and capital of New Zealand . |
| Bakers Alley |
From a Dover Express dated 1952 it makes reference to this alley which is the passage leading from Tower Street to Tower Hill. Originally it was called Slip Alley, and in the late 1800s a widow came to live in the end house and opened her front room as a sweet shop. All the children knew her as old granny Baker hence the name. |
| Bakers Close |
Was once the name of the steep ascent now known as Priory Hill. The name is a corruption of Bake House Close being part of the close or field of nine acres given originally to the monks of the Priory to establish a bakery and on this hill was a bake-house. |
| Balfour Road |
This road was laid out just before the end of the last century and although at that time Mr. Balfour had not yet became Prime Minister he was already a well-known politician having been president of the Local Government Board and Chief Secretary for Ireland. |
| Barton Road |
The road which in olden times passed behind Barton Farm was commonly described as the back o Barton. It was a narrow crooked lane, which the parish authorities at various times slightly improved, because before the making of the turnpike road and the building of Buckland Bridge, this was the route of the coaches, road wagons, and other traffic to Canterbury and London. |
| Bartholomew Street |
This street is built near to the spot, which used to be known as Bartholomew Fields and at that time a Bartlemy Fair was held there until 1830. About 1152 a House of Mercy for lepers was founded and dedicated to St. Bartholomew and placed in these fields, and when houses were built and the foundation dug in what is now the London Road just beyond St. Bartholomews Church, many human bones were found which were no doubt those of lepers and that this portion of ground was the burying place of St. Bartholomews Hospital. |
| Beach Street |
The piece of ground on which this street is built was not many years ago the beach where the children living down the pier played. They called it the Plain Beach as it adjoined a portion of ground called the Chapel Plain |
| Beaconsfield Road |
This road was planned and built by a Conservative builder named Tucker and called after the famous Tory Leader |
| Beaufoy Road and Terrace |
So called after the late Mr. C. E. Beaufoy, chairman of the corporation housing committee at the time these streets were laid out and Mayor in 1919. |
| Beaumont Terrace |
This is one of the numerous terraces in Folkestone Road, which were given distinctive names when the road was being developed, piecemeal and consecutive numbering was not possible. This terrace is named after Baron Beaumont, who bought Westmount and all the land between it and the railway with the intention of founding a monastery. |
| Beckets Walk |
An appropriate reference to Thomas Becket amid the surrounding streets all named after pilgrims in Chaucers Canterbury Tales. |
| Bench Street |
There are very great differences of opinion about the origin of this name. Some say that it is called from a bench, which was placed near the turning into Snargate Street and called the Penniless Bench where beggars there went to congregate. Other people say that there was a bench in the Tower of St. Nicholas (which Tower remained standing in Bench Street till 1800.) And they affirm that The Bench was the Customs Tax building (till 1796) and was a meeting place for gossips, it was also used for a place of meeting for merchants to transact business, pay the Kings dues etc. so that a bench had existed thereabouts for many years and was sufficient reason for the choice of the name when the street was formed. It was widened and thereby much improved in 1837 when the shops were pulled down and built up again in their own back gardens. Before that time the street was very narrow. |
| Beresford Road |
This road, which joins Common Lane River, is named after Admiral Charles William de la poer Beresford a famous admiral who was in his hey-day at the time the road was laid out. He commanded the Channel Fleet in 1907. |
| Biggin Street |
Named after Biggin Gate and the fact is recorded by a tablet let into the wall of the Rose Inn, which states "Here Stood Biggin Gate, taken down by order of the Corporation "1762." The street ends at Maison Dieu now used as the Town Hall. It was erected in the time of King John by Hubert de Burgh as a house of rest for pilgrims passing to and fro. It was suppressed by King Henry VIII and in the reign of Queen Mary was converted into a Victualling Office for the Royal Navy and was so used until 1830 when it was transferred to the Board of Ordnance who in 1863 sold it to the Dover Corporation. In 1859 the restoration of the building began and finished, and was used for Municipal purposes. While it remained the Victualling Office, the manager of the agent lived at the house adjoining and one of the quays was set apart for ships employed for Victualling purposes. In 1883 great additions were made to the original building at an enormous expense a new prison was built on the Ladywell side of the Maison Dieu in 1867. |
| Black Horse Lane |
This lane was the original name for Tower Hamlets Road. The change of name was made in 1865. Here stood a turn-pike, which of course disappeared when the Turn-Pike Act was repealed. The Black Horse Inn stood at the lower corner and was a reminder of the public executions, which took place on the rising ground facing Bridge Street. The last execution there was in August 1822 of a young man convicted of robbery at Margate. The houses in this road which, have taken the place of wild flowers were built on the site of some brickfields belonging to Farbrace and Winthrop who in those days discovered that there was suitable clay to be got to the lane and set to work to make bricks instead of importing them from a distance. |
| Blenheim Square |
Was in the Pier district and was one of the thoroughfares which disappeared in connection with the Pier Improvement Scheme of the early part of this century and the construction of the viaduct. It took its name from a cannon, which stood in the square. The Cannon a trophy from the Crimea was a gift to Dover from the Officers and crew of H.M.S. Blenheim who captured it in Hango in 1855. Before that date the space was known as Red Pump Square because a red pump stood there. The pump is indicated on a map of 1737. |
| Blutcher Street |
This is another name, which has now disappeared from local directories. Blucher Street was one of the rows of old property demolished to make way for the Durham Hill development. It was built early in the last century and named after General Blutcher who was staying at the Ship Hotel in Dover when peace was declared in 1814. |
| Boston Rise |
The first alphabetically of the streets on Buckland Valley, which take their names from cities of the United States of America. |
| Bowling Green Hill |
In 1834 there used to be a very good bowling green in the area where the Durham Hill flats now stand. The greens were kept up by the subscriptions of the elite of the town and the officers of the garrison. |
| Branch Street |
Before this little street was built between Peter Street and Bridge Street a footbridge at that point crossed a branch of the river. |
| Bridge Street |
Has probably been so-called since 1829 when the brick bridge was built across the Dour. The road formerly crossed by a ford, although there was a wooden foot-bridge for pedestrians. But the road is a very old one, part of an ancient road from Charlton Bottom to Whinless Down and Hougham. |
| Brisbane Way |
Brisbane Australia, was founded as a station for British convicts in 1824, it was named in honour of the British administrator Thomas Brisbane then governor of the neighbouring colony of New South Wales. |
| Brook Street |
Now swallowed up by the enlargement of Dover Engineering Works this short cul-de-sac was a turning off Colebran Street. It got its name from its proximity to the Dour sometimes called not disrespectfully a brook. The primitive Methodists had their first meeting place in a cow shed in Brook Street before they moved to the Peter Street Chapel in 1860. |
| Brookfield Avenue |
This, like Brookfield Place appears to have taken its name from Brookfield House on the east side of the river. This house built as a new parsonage for Buckland but never used for that purpose it was probably so-named because it stood close to the river on land, which anciently was glebe. |
| Brookfield Place |
When the houses in this street were built the River Dour flowed through fields nearby. |
| Buckland Avenue |
According to Hasted the Kent historian Buckland, formerly spelt Bockeland took its name from two Saxon words-boc or book and land meaning that it was land held by charter or writing. |
| Bulwark Hill |
This name has a very obvious meaning the bulwarks on the east side of Archcliff Fort being situated on the hill. |
| Bulwark Street |
Derives its name from the tower or bulwark built by Sir John Clark the Master of the Maison Dieu to guard the old Paradise Harbour.. |
| Bunkers Hill |
Appears to have taken its name from an American district near Charlestown where the British had a victory on June 17th 1775 in the American War of Independence. But the train of circumstances, which brought the name to Dover, is obscure. |
| Bushy Ruff |
Modern purists insist upon spelling the name of this part of Alkham Valley on the Borough boundary Bushy Rough But old maps all give the spelling Ruff a rough or ruff was a common and though this would hardly be a suitable description for the well-watered valley, it could apply to the higher ground of River Minnis above. It is said that the name was given to the locality about the end of the 18th century by a man who dammed the further of the two lakes and built a paper mill there as well as a house for himself on the higher ground. |
| Byllan Road |
This is a comparatively new name although the road itself has been in existence for half a century or more. Until a few years ago this street and its continuation on the other side of Lewisham Road was called South Road. Owing to the confusion with South Road Tower Hamlets a change was made and this part of the street between Lewisham Road and Valley Road was given the name of a terrace of houses, which flank the south side. The terrace itself is another of those to which the builder the late Mr. Fred Lewis gave the names of members of his family |
