Ainsdale Road
Named after Southport and Ainsdale Golf Club, founded in 1906, in Ainsdale, Southport, Merseyside, England.
The 1896 map shows what was here before the estate. Drag the round handle to compare it with today.
The name
Ainsdale Road takes its name from Southport and Ainsdale Golf Club. The club hosted the Ryder Cup twice, in 1933 and 1937.
Where the club's facts come from: Club History - Southport & Ainsdale Golf Club, the club's own history.
How sure we are of the match: Strong
The estate's streets were named after golf courses. The streets page explains how each match was made.
In the story
- Schools: Greenfields, Woodhall and St Joseph's
St Joseph's Catholic primary in Ainsdale Road came last, in about 1955. - Clubs, sport and events: The Cow Shed and the community centres
In May 1953 a councillor asked for county huts in Ainsdale Road to be given to youth clubs, and in August 1955 residents were angry to find ten of them demolished, after more than five years of proposals and counter-proposals between the LCC, the county and the rural district council. - Silkin House and Corbett House (site)
Local historian Neil Hamilton places them on Lincoln Drive, opposite St Joseph's School, and the 1960s Ordnance Survey shows them in Matlock Crescent, between Lincoln Drive and Ainsdale Road. - St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School is still a Catholic primary school on Ainsdale Road, voluntary aided, for children aged 3 to 11.
On the timeline
- August 1955 Ten huts in Ainsdale Road are pulled down, unused after five years of argument between the LCC, the county council and Watford RDC.
- about 1955 St Joseph's Catholic primary school opens in Ainsdale Road, the last of the estate's schools to be built.
Close by
Buildings
- Silkin House and Corbett House (site) 80 m
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 90 m
- Oxhey Woods Local Nature Reserve 140 m
- Oxhey Place, the estate's first clinic (site) 180 m
- Site of Oxhey Place farm 200 m
Ancient woods
- Oxhey Woods, northern part (Old and Young Hangings, Little Furze Field, The Plantation) 140 m
- Ox Pasture Spring (by Gosforth Lane) 330 m
- Oxhey Woods, central part (Beck Mason's Wood) 360 m
Walk stops
- Site of Oxhey Place 180 m
The heart of the estate walk - Site of Oxhey Place 180 m
Farms and lost houses walk - Site of the home farm 200 m
Farms and lost houses walk
Distances are in a straight line from a point on the street.