Dumfries Close

The name

Dumfries Close may take its name from Dumfries & County Golf Club. Willie Fernie, winner of the 1883 Open, laid out the course and James Braid redesigned it in 1929.

Club dates: 1912 (course opened 1913).

Where the club's facts come from: Club History | Dumfries and County Golf Club, The club itself.

How sure we are of the match: Possible

The estate's streets were named after golf courses. The streets page explains how each match was made.

In the story

• Building the Estate: The estate goes up
  John Swain dates the houses at the western end of Hayling Road to late 1950, and says that by the summer of 1951 the houses in the roads running off it, Dumfries Close, Nairn Green, Handsworth Way, Ashburnham Drive and Hallowes Crescent, would all be finished, a date for building work rather than for tenants moving in.
• Getting about: Buses
  Once the estate roads were tarmacked the 346 ran from the Harebreaks to Hallowes Crescent, where it terminated by the new shops, and it was later extended to Dumfries Close, although the blinds still showed Hallowes Crescent for years.

Close by

Buildings

• Oxhey Woods Local Nature Reserve 70 m
• The Crescent Club (site) 240 m
• Hallowes Crescent shops 250 m
• Salvation Army hut (site) 270 m
• The Jet (site) 670 m

Ancient woods

• Hampermill Spring and Round Spring 100 m
• Oxhey Woods, northern part (Old and Young Hangings, Little Furze Field, The Plantation) 130 m
• Hampermill Wood 350 m

Walk stops

• Round Spring and Hampermill Spring 140 m
  The lost golf course walk
• Ashburnham Drive entrance 230 m
  The lost golf course walk
• Hallowes Crescent shops 250 m
  Streets of 1947 to 1953 walk

Distances are in a straight line from a point on the street.