Fairfield Avenue

The name

Fairfield Avenue may take its name from Fairfield Golf Club. It grew from a tiny clubhouse and nine holes into eighteen, in green belt among the reservoirs east of Manchester.

Where the club's facts come from: Fairfield Golf Club, Established in 1892, the club's own history.

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

• Oxhey Place: the Blackwells' mansion
  Residents remember the war years too. One resident recalls evacuees housed in the Blackwells' house, and one such family moving into Fairfield Avenue when work on the estate began.
• Shops, pubs and services: Doctors, the clinic and the health centre
  Two residents remember the early surgeries differently. One resident who arrived in 1952 places a surgery at the top of Fairfield Avenue in the old farmhouse, and another puts one down Gosforth Lane and along a path at the side.
• Clubs, sport and events: The Community Association, 1949
  Whist drives ran every Saturday evening at the Fairfield Avenue canteen, a dance band was formed on the estate, and the poet and playwright Maurice Carpenter agreed to give weekly lecture discussions on modern writers from 13 September.
• Rebuilding the centre: Phase 2: the market square
  The new blocks are Clarendon Court, Graham Taylor Place, Corbie House, Warneford House, Pearkes House, Blackwell Place and Hampden Place, on Bucknall Place, Bridlington Road, Prestwick Road, Fairfield Avenue and the new St Andrews Way, which follows the line of the old St Andrew's Road.

On the timeline

• June 1950 The community association holds its first fete on undeveloped plots at the corner of Prestwick Road and Fairfield Avenue, among piles of bricks and scaffolding.
• 28 November 1957 The LCC sells Watford RDC the plot at Fairfield Avenue and Bridlington Road, the future library site, for £2,500.

Close by

Buildings

• Oxhey Library 50 m
• St Andrew's precinct (site) 130 m
• The Pheasant, later The Ox (site) 140 m
• Warren Dell Primary School 160 m
• South Oxhey Leisure Centre 200 m

Ancient woods

• Pond Wood 230 m
• Sandpit Wood, railway strip 460 m
• Oxhey Woods, northern part (Old and Young Hangings, Little Furze Field, The Plantation) 590 m

Walk stops

• The library 50 m
  The heart of the estate walk
• Oxhey Library 50 m
  Schools, churches and shops walk
• The old precinct 130 m
  The heart of the estate walk

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