Lincoln Drive

The name

Lincoln Drive probably takes its name from Lincoln Golf Club. The club was founded on the common west of the city, the club moved in 1903 to a new course at Torksey laid out by the Open champion J.H. Taylor.

Where the club's facts come from: Our History - Lincoln 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

• Farms and fields: Oxhey Place and Ranger's Farm
  By the 1960s the farmhouse site was under the houses of Lincoln Drive and Matlock Crescent.
• Building the Estate: The builders
  The firm of W Old was the contractor for Corbett House and Silkin House, two eight-storey blocks of 24 flats each on Lincoln Drive and Matlock Crescent, approved by Watford Rural District Council in 1960 and built in 1962 and 1963.
• 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.

On the timeline

• 1962 to 1963 Corbett House and Silkin House, two eight-storey blocks of flats approved in 1960, go up on Lincoln Drive and Matlock Crescent. Both have since been demolished and replaced by houses.

Close by

Buildings

• Site of Oxhey Place farm 60 m
• Silkin House and Corbett House (site) 70 m
• Oxhey Place, the estate's first clinic (site) 90 m
• All Saints Church 130 m
• Oxhey Chapel in the estate years 130 m

Ancient woods

• Oxhey Woods, northern part (Old and Young Hangings, Little Furze Field, The Plantation) 260 m
• Pond Wood 410 m
• Ox Pasture Spring (by Gosforth Lane) 420 m

Walk stops

• Site of the home farm 60 m
  Farms and lost houses walk
• Site of Oxhey Place 90 m
  The heart of the estate walk
• Site of Oxhey Place 90 m
  Farms and lost houses walk

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