Kilmarnock Road
Probably named after Kilmarnock (Barassie) Golf Club, founded in 1887, in Barassie, near Troon, South Ayrshire, Scotland.
The 1896 map shows what was here before the estate. Drag the round handle to compare it with today.
The name
Kilmarnock Road probably takes its name from Kilmarnock (Barassie) Golf Club. Fourteen Kilmarnock men founded the club in the town's George Hotel in 1887, and in 1894 it moved to the links beside Barassie railway station.
Where the club's facts come from: Formation of Club - Kilmarnock (Barassie) Golf Club, the club's own history.
How sure we are of the match: Likely
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
Families were in Woodhall Lane by July 1948, and others remember moving to Caldwell Road, Liphook Road and Kilmarnock Road that year. - Shops, pubs and services: Doctors, the clinic and the health centre
General practice was spread across ordinary houses for years. One doctor held his surgery in his own house at the end of Heysham Drive, and the practice worked from a house in Prestwick Road near the bottom of Kilmarnock Road before it moved to the surgery in Oxhey Drive past the police station.
On the timeline
- 1948 Families are living in Woodhall Lane by July, and others remember moving into Caldwell Road, Liphook Road and Kilmarnock Road during the year.
Close by
Buildings
- Woodhall Lane and the concrete houses 80 m
- The Clitheroe Club 260 m
- Carpenders Park and South Oxhey Methodist Church 260 m
- Nanscott House and Beck Mason House 300 m
- Woodhall Primary School 320 m
Ancient woods
Walk stops
- Clitheroe Gardens 260 m
Schools, churches and shops walk - Pond Wood 320 m
The heart of the estate walk - The Dick Whittington 350 m
Schools, churches and shops walk
Distances are in a straight line from a point on the street.