Trevose Way
Named after Trevose Golf & Country Club, founded in 1925, in Constantine Bay, Cornwall, England.
The 1896 map shows what was here before the estate. Drag the round handle to compare it with today.
The name
Trevose Way takes its name from Trevose Golf & Country Club. Its Cornish links were designed by Harry Colt.
Where the club's facts come from: About Us | Trevose Golf & Country 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
- Oxhey Place: the Blackwells' mansion
When the house burned in 1960, four brothers from Trevose Way watched the firemen at work. - Clubs, sport and events: Music and the beat groups
Gene and the Cossacks, whose bass player grew up in Trevose Way, played the Clarendon Youth Wing on Friday nights and the community centre in Oxhey Drive, mentored younger estate bands and once won a battle of the bands against the Small Faces, the prize a vinyl recording. - Change and renewal: The concrete houses rebuilt
Warden-controlled flats were put up on a large green in Trevose Way, on a site now known as the Harrogate Club. - Streets of 1947 to 1953
Trevose Way: One of the council's 1951 photographs, with an old oak left standing beside the new terraces.
Close by
Buildings
- Site of Oxhey Place farm 140 m
- Hayling Road, the first homes 160 m
- Oxhey Woods Local Nature Reserve 190 m
- Silkin House and Corbett House (site) 200 m
- Estate timber yard, Paddock Spring 220 m
Ancient woods
- Oxhey Woods, northern part (Old and Young Hangings, Little Furze Field, The Plantation) 210 m
- Ox Pasture Spring (by Gosforth Lane) 320 m
- Oxhey Woods, central part (Beck Mason's Wood) 530 m
Walk stops
- Trevose Way 20 m
Streets of 1947 to 1953 walk - Harewood Road 140 m
Streets of 1947 to 1953 walk - Site of the home farm 140 m
Farms and lost houses walk
Distances are in a straight line from a point on the street.