Neighbourhood Studies
No. 1 - Fulflood
3 History
Fairfield Road
Apart from the farm there appear to have been few human habitations in the area before the 19th century. The 1869 Ordnance Survey shows little development west of the railway, except for North View (south side only) and Avenue Terrace in Avenue Road. Around 1840 the railway station was built, stimulating terraced and other development to the south of Oram's Arbour. In the following decades terraces were extended further north into the area to Boscobel Road. The Jolly Farmer and Roebuck Inns are shown, though the buildings may have been replaced. After 1869, two attractive stone dressed flint double-fronted houses (nos. 106 & 134) were built on the north side of Stockbridge Road, standing out sharply from their later narrow red brick neighbours in the same terrace. By 1895 a few houses were built in Fairfield Road, Stockbridge Road and Western Road; Elm Road and Avenue Road were virtually complete. Some terraces were built in Cheriton Road and the south side of Greenhill Road; the remaining development north of Stockbridge Road was complete by 1914. To the south of the Stockbridge Road the original building of the Girls High School (now Westgate) and some detached houses in Cheriton Road were also completed before the First World War. Fordington Avenue and the low-lying part of Cheriton Road were largely built between the wars.