| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re::Re:Who is responsible for putting up road nameplates? | |
| Posted by: | Colin Potter | |
| Date/Time: | 19/01/20 22:58:00 |
| It was the war that meant the area wasn’t surveyed by O/S, but I don’t think it has anything to do with the name change. I tried googling Alexandra Avenue/Gardens to find out why it has its name, but couldn’t find anything. So googled a few other things to work out why the A316 is where it is. The Great Chertsey Road was first proposed in 1909, but abandoned because of the cost. The Ministry of Transport revived the plans in 1925 and was given Royal Accent in 1928. In 1923 the Chiswick Urban District Council purchased Dukes Meadows, and built the Great Chertsey Road, not as a service road, but in the hope that Chiswick Bridge and the rest of the Great Chertsey Road would be built. Alexandra Gardens were built after the road was completed, so that section was built as the Great Chertsey road and the name Alexandra came afterwards. The road from Burlington Lane to Hartington Road was built and named as the Great Chertsey Road, at some point it has locally become known as the Alexandra road, but that name has never been officially recognised. (As O/S are arbiters of land boundaries, are they also arbiters of road names?) So even though taxi drivers have to try and remember the name of that bit of road, and TFL busses stop there, Alexandra Road has never existed. |