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Street numbering: Lime Walk, Headington

Lime Walk

Lime Walk in Headington is a good example of the way street numbers change as a road develops.

In the late 1870s, the Revd John Taylor of the Rookery in Old Headington sold the lands of Highfield Farm for a new housing development to be attached to New Headington Village, and the southern part of Lime Walk was the first street to be laid out. It could not be extended up to the London Road, however, as the large Britannia field occupied this area (see 1899 Ordnance Survey map, left).

Lime Walk's main entrance was from the High Street of New Headington village via a short spur (then known as New Road, and now named All Saints Road after the 1910 church). Hence the original numbering of Lime Walk (first recorded in the 1891 census) started and finished at the All Saints crossroads:

  • East side (south of All Saints Road): 1, 2, 3 etc southwards to 29 at Old Road
  • West side: 30, 31, 32 etc. all the way up the west side, continuing the other side of All Saints Road as far as 66 and then crossing the road
  • East side, north of All Saints Road: 67, 68, 69 etc. running southwards down to 76 & 77 (demolished to make way for All Saints Church

By 1910, the Britannia had sold its field, and the top end of Lime Walk began to be developed. At first the new houses were just given names, but in about 1920 the whole street was renumbered, with the east side having odd numbers from 1 to 77 and the west side having numbers from 2 to 30, both running southwards.

Infilling since that date meant that the street had to be renumbered again in 1953, so that the numbers now run from 1 to 125 on the east side and 2 to 134 on the west

Lime Walk, east side, north to south
Present
 Numbering
Numbering in 1976
(last Kelly's Directory)
Numbering
c.1920–1952
Numbering
1891 census
1 [& 3]
Britannia Inn
1 [& 3]
Britannia Inn
1
Britannia Inn
5
5
3
Britannia
Field 
7
7
 
9 "The Willows"
11 "Glendale"
9 "The Willows"
11 "Glendale"
5 "The Willows"
7 "Glendale"
13
15
13
15
9
11
17
17
13
19 19  
21
21
13A
23
23
13B
25
25
15
27
27
17
29
31
29
31
[notionally 19]
33
35
35
37
39
37
39
21
23
43 43  
45  
Lime Walk Methodist Ch
[notionally 47]
Lime Walk Methodist Ch
[notionally 47]
  
49
51
49
51
25
27
67
68
53 "St Leonards"
55 "Lime Walk Villa"
53 "St Leonards"
55 "Lime Walk Villa"
29
31
69
70
57
57
33
[Plot for 71]
59
59
    
61
63
61
63
35
37
72
73
65
67
65
67
39
41
74
75
All Saints Church
[notionally 69 & 71]
All Saints Church
[notionally 69 & 71]
All Saints Church
[No number allocated]
76
77
Here is All Saints Road
73
73
43
 Unnamed house
75–81 (flats)
75
77
79
81
    
83
85
83
85
45
47
 
87 "Ferndale"
89
87 "Ferndale"
89
49 "Ferndale"
51
 
91  "Summerville"
91 "Summerville"
53 "Summerville"
"Summerville"
Entrance to
Cecil Sharp Place
95
97
55
57
 
99 "Woodbine Cottage"
101 "Rose Cottage"
99 "Woodbine Cottage"
101 "Rose Cottage"
59 "Woodbine Cottage"
61 "Rose Cottage"
"Woodbine Cottage"
"Rose Cottage"
Entrance to
Nursery Close
Entrance to
Nursery Close
[notionally 103, 105, 107]
    
109
109
63
 Unnamed house
111 "Daisymede"
111 "Daisymede"
65 "Daisymede"
21 "Daisymede"
113
113
67
22
115 "Launton Villa"
115 "Launton Villa"
69 "Launton Villa"
"Launton Villa"
117 "Fern Cottage"
117 "Fern Cottage"
71 "Fern Cottage
 
119 "Ivydene"
119 "Ivydene"
73 "Ivydene"
"Ivydene"
121
121
 
 
123 "Hazledene"
125
123 "Hazledene"
125
75 "Hazledene"
77
"Hazledene"
Unnamed house
129 (double width)
129 (double width)
    
131 "Netherbury"
131 "Netherbury"
79 "Netherbury"
 
 
Lime Walk, west side, north to south
Present
Numbering
Numbering in 1976
(last Kelly's Directory)
Numbering
c.1920–1952
Numbering
1891 census
2
Nine flats being built
2: Headington sorting office
& driving tests
2–8: Headington
Telephone Exchange
Britannia
Field 
4
6
4
6
10
12
8
    
10
10
14
12
14
12
14
16
18
16
18
16
18
20
22
20
22
20
22
24
26
24
24
28
26
28
26
28
30
32
30–34
St Ebbe's in Headington
30–34
Shirley Memorial Hall
34–36
Shirley Memorial Hall
36
38
36
38
38
40
40
42
40
42
42
44
44 (double plot)
44 (double plot)
44A
48
48
46
50
52
50
52
48
66
65
54
54
50
64
54A
      
56
56
52
63
56A
58A
56A
58A
58
60
58
60
54
56
62 being built
61 being built
60A
      
62
64
62
64
58
60
60
59
66
  
 
  
68
70
68
70
"Durlston"
"Donhead"
Plot for 58
Plot for 57
72
72
 
 Plot for 56
74
74
62
 55
Here is All Saints Road
76
76
64
54
78 & 80
78 & 80
66
53
82
82
68
52
84
86
84 (rebuilt)
86 (rebuilt)
70
72
51
50
88
88
74
49
90
92
90
92
76
78
48
47
94
96
94
96
80
82
46
45
98 "Minster Villa"
98 "Minster Villa"
84 "Minster Villa"
44
100
102
100
102
86
88
43
42
104
106
104
106
90
92
41
40
108
108
94
39
110
112
110
112
96
98
[38A?]
[38]
Lime Court
(ten flats)
114 & 116 demolished;
118 never built
100
102
37
36
120
122
120
122
106
108
[35]
[34]
124
124
110
33]
126
126
112
[32]
128
128
114
[31]
134: "Longworth"
(triple plot)
134: "Longworth"
(triple plot)
116: "Longworth"
Large house on
Plots 30, 29, and 28

Lime Walk North

Above: Lime Walk from London Road; Below: Lime Walk from Old Road

Lime Walk south

© Stephanie Jenkins

 

Last updated: 8 November, 2008

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