Thornhill Square was the centre and showpiece of the Thornhill Estate, but 86 acres was a lot of land and other roads associated with the family include Matilda Street, Richmond Avenue, Thornhill Road, Belitha Villas. This is just a brief glimpse into some of the sights.
Richmond Avenue was the first part of the Thornhill Estate to be developed, from 1829. Joseph Kay, who laid out the estate for the family, favoured the Classical style, but perhaps also admired Admiral Nelson, as the sphinxes are inscribed ‘Nile’.
Hemingford Road was named after the village of Hemingford Grey where the Thornhill family owned land.
Ripplevale Grove slopes downhill, lined with pretty cottages which could easily fit into a county market town.
In Thornhill Road, opposite Ripplevale Grove, Albion Lodge is a listed building and the nearby Albion apparently used to be a tea-house!
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Photographs of the area
Memories of a lost village, life in this area in the early 1900s