Roads & Paths
Abigail’s Lane (Tunwells Lane)
1841 census
1851 census
1886 Polling List
Abigail Lane (erroneously applied to Woollards Lane by census enumerator)
1881 census
Babraham Way
1707 Terrier of lands belonging to Granhams Manor
1773 Map of Buristead Manor demesne, G & C college, ref. BUR:MAP/02/02.1/01, entry no. 8
Babrun Road
?1756 Terrier of the late Benjamin Beeton, CRO R55/14/1
Babram Way
1657 Terrier, G&C
Stapleford/Stableford/Stabelford Way
1707 Terrier of lands belonging to Granhams Manor
Babrum Way
1635 Terrier, G&C
Bar Lane (see also Butts Lane)
1773 Map of Buristead Manor demesne, G & C college, ref. BUR:MAP/02/02.1/01, entry no. 3
1834 Enclosure Commissioners’ Minute Book (laying out of roads)
1835 GS Encl Award Schedule
1990 Alan Bailey, personal communication
2006, Interview with Jerry Brown, GSOHG
Barr Lane
1926-32 Proposals for Improvement, Jesus College Estates, GS 4.8, JCA
Butts Lane (from High St by Buristead Rd to Malyons, by 1969 overgrown and no longer in use) (see Bar Lane)
1969 Great Shelford WI Recollections, refers mostly to 1909-1939
Cambridge Road
1835 GS Encl Award Schedule
1871 census
1881 census (Includes High Green)
1891 census (ditto)
1901 census (as now)
1910 Valuation Office Survey (as now)
1911 census (starts at the Greyhound)
1913 Polling List
The Causeway
1751 Terrier of Parsonage Lands by John Aylmer, JCA
Charity Willow Road (refers to far end of Granhams Road, after Nine Wells House) (is this a misidentification? Cf Charity Willow Meadow & Hollow Willow Balk Road)
1886 Ordnance Survey Map
1903 Ordnance Survey Map
Cherry Hinton Road
1756 Elstobb’s Particular, JCA
1861 census
1910 Valuation Office Survey
Cherryhinton Road
1901 census (begins in same place as now)
1911 census
1913 Polling List
Church Lane
1835 GS Encl Award Schedule
1851 census
The Common Street
1674 Terrier, G & C, p6 (probably refers here to Church Street)
Coppice Looming Avenue, later Coppice Avenue (developed 1910-12 by Mr Ebenezer Haynes)
1910 Valuation Office Survey
1911 census
1913 Polling List
1969 Great Shelford WI Recollections, refers mostly to 1909-1939
Coppice Avenue
1912 Kelly’s Directory
1913 Polling List (also Coppice Looming)
Court Lane extinguished at Enclosure
1773 Map of Buristead Manor demesne, G & C college, ref. BUR:MAP/02/02.1/01, entry no. 32
1799 Mortgage settlement Jardine to Nutter, CRO K71/T/109
1805 Buristead Manor Court Book
1834 Claims for Enclosure UL Doc 652/89
1835 GS Encl Award Schedule
Cote Lane
1674 Terrier, G & C p13
Crandell Way (drive to Rayment’s house off Woollards Lane)
1969 Great Shelford WI Recollections, refers mostly to 1909-1939
The Crescent, later Davey Crescent (built c1938)
1969 Great Shelford WI Recollections, refers mostly to 1909-1939
Crow Lane
1674 Terrier, G & C, p13
1762 Buristead Manor court book (Thos Tunwell)
1773 Map of Buristead Manor demesne, G & C college, ref. BUR:MAP/02/02.1/01, entry no. 32
The Evershowe road/Hevereshowe Road
1200-35 Gift with Warranty, Jesus/Nuns/Add.73
Fulbourne Way
1635 Terrier, G&C
The Gene Path – the cycle path from Addenbrookes Hospital to Great Shelford alongside the railway line, has a central strip representing the human genome marked in it
2017 Noted on a posting on social media website Streetlife
Gog ma Gog (Hills Road)
1885 Polling List
1901 census
Granhams Road
1841 census (includes cottages on Granhams Road, but not in the field behind which is The Green)
1851 (as 1841)
1871 census
1891 census
1901 census
1910 Valuation Office Survey
Granham’s Road
1886 Ordnance Survey Map (refers to part as far as Nine Wells House)
1903 Ordnance Survey Map
1913 Polling List
Granhams Close (built prior to 1969)
1969 Great Shelford WI Recollections, refers mostly to 1909-1939
Granta Terrace
1910 Valuation Office Survey
1911 census
Greneway Lane
1230-50 s.d. Gift with Warranty, Jesu/Nuns/Add.77
Hardens Lane leading to Stapleford
1791 Buristead Manor court book
Haveril Road
1751 Terrier of Parsonage Lands by John Aylmer, JCA
Haverill Way
1657 Terrier, G&C
Haverhill Road
1773 Map of Buristead Manor demesne, G & C college, ref. BUR:MAP/02/02.1/01, entry no. 6
High Green
1635 UL MS Doc.974 Sale, John Gatwood “abuts upon the common High Green”
1712 UL MS Doc.977 Lease, Susanna Kemp “abuts upon the common High Green”
1841 census (houses on both side of the green )
1886 Polling List
1901 census (as now)
1910 Valuation Office Survey
1911 census
1913 Polling List
High Street
1841 census (runs from the Plough to the water bridges)
1851 census (from water bridges to the Plough)
1871 census (as above)
1891 census (as above)
1901 census (as above)
1910 Valuation Office Survey (includes Church St)
1911 census (includes Church Street)
1913 Polling List
The Common Street
1833, 1854 Granhams Manor court book
High Road to Whittlesford
1842 Granhams Manor court book
Hills Road
1841 census
1871 census
1910 Valuation Office Survey (by Red Cross)
1911 census (includes Red Cross and Hills Trees)
Hills View
1911 census (here it applies to one of the four cottages just to left of Hills View lane, but is used in the name Hills View Cottages)
1912 Kelly’s Directory (query – is this the cottage on Hinton Way, or the road Hills View?)
Hinton Way
1635 Terrier, G&C
1738 Buristead Manor Court Book, 1738, admission of John Aylmer
1751 Terrier of Parsonage Lands by John Aylmer, JCA
1773 Map of Buristead Manor demesne, G & C college, ref. BUR:MAP/02/02.1/01, entry no.43 and many others
1799 Mortgage settlement Jardine to Nutter, CRO K71/T/109
Hollow Willow Balk Road (Granhams Road)
1834 Enclosure Commissioners’ Minute Book, CRO R72/54
1835 Enclosure Award (setting out of roads)
1840 Buristead Manor court book
1843, 1855 Granhams Manor court book
Hollow Willow
1885 Voting List
C 2006 Interview with Townsend brothers, GSOHG (reported as used by their mother, therefore probably early 20c)
Hollow Way Balk
1773 Map of Buristead Manor demesne, G & C college, ref. BUR:MAP/02/02.1/01, entry no. 18
Horningse Street
Bef. 1236 s.d. Gift with Warranty, GS 1. Nuns’ Lands, JCA
Horningsey Way
1635 Terrier, G&C (Horningsey Way or Hinton Way)
1653 Terrier, G&C, also Hornesey Way
1674 Terrier, G & C p13 etc (seems to suggest Hinton Way rather than Granhams, which is a surprise)
1707 Terrier of lands belonging to Granhams Manor
1722 UL MS Doc.1072 Lease Alice Rogers “the highway that leadeth from Shelford… towards Hinton antiently called”
London Road
1851 census (includes current London Rd, & also road to Cambridge starting from Granhams Rd corner, and also including houses on west side of High Green which are described as both)
1881 census (includes houses on Tunwells Lane)
1891 census (ditto)
London Turnpike Road
1873 Sales particulars, UL Maps.PSQ.18.250 (refers to Tunwells Lane)
1911 census (refers to part in Great Shelford beyond railway bridge)
Love Lane extinguished at Enclosure
1835 GS Encl Award Schedule
Macaulay Ave (named after Macaulay family, and esp. Rose Macaulay writer)
1969 Great Shelford WI Recollections, refers mostly to 1909-1939
The Mere
1751 Terrier of Parsonage Lands by John Aylmer, JCA
Mereway
1756 Elstobb’s Particular, JCA
Meer Way
1773 Map of Buristead Manor demesne, G & C college, ref. BUR:MAP/02/02.1/01, entry no. 14 which separates GS par. from Trump’n par.
Trumpington Meer Way
1756 Elstobb’s Particular, JCA
Mill feild way possibly London Road
1647 Rental of Edward Ventrys
Mill Lane
1657 Terrier, G & C, p3
1674 Terrier, G & C, p6
1841 census
1851 census
1861 census
1871 census
1881 census
1901 census
1910 Valuation Office Survey
1911 census
1913 Polling List
1969 Great Shelford WI Recollections, refers mostly to 1909-1939
Mingle Lane
1969 Great Shelford WI Recollections, refers mostly to 1909-1939
The Portway
1200-35 Gift with Warranty, Jesus/Nuns/Add.73
Post Office Path (path running down the side of the Post Office)
2004 Interview with Jill Nicholas (b. 1931)
2005 Interview with Will Ellum (refers to father’s birthplace, early 1900s)
2006 Interview with Gladys Housden (b. 1911)
2012 Interview with Vernon Speed (b. 1939)
Near Post Office
1913 Polling List
Red Cross Road
1834 Enclosure Commissioners’ Minute Book (laying out of roads)
1871 census (by turnpike gate)
Rod Meadow Road/Way
1773 Map of Buristead Manor demesne, G & C college, ref. BUR:MAP/02/02.1/01, entry no. 52/16
Spinney Drive
1969 Great Shelford WI Recollections, refers mostly to 1909-1939
Station Road
1871 census
1881 census (covers Hinton Way up to Oakfield Cottage)
1891 census (includes Woollards Lane, then as above)
1901 census (as 1891)
1911 census (Woollards Lane, then to station)
1913 Polling List (note that same document also uses Woollard’s Lane)
Staple Church Way (?Mingle Lane)
1756 Elstobb’s Particular, JCA
Stapleford/Stableford/Stabelford Way (probably Hinton Way)
1707 Terrier of lands belonging to Granhams Manor
Stapleford Road (current London Road)
1861 census (refers to one house on current London Rd)
1871 census
1881 census
1901 census
1910 Valuation Office Survey (from Freestones Corner)
1911 census (from Freestones Corner to railway bridge)
1913 Polling List (both sides of railway bridge)
Stapleford Highway
?1712, Schedule of Demesnes leased by Jas Church, G & C
Stapleford Way
1773 Map of Buristead Manor demesne, G & C college, ref. BUR:MAP/02/02.1/01, entry no. 44
Stonehill Way
1635 Terrier, G&C
1751 Terrier of Parsonage Lands by John Aylmer, JCA
1756 Terrier of Nuns’ Lands, JCA
1773 Map of Buristead Manor demesne, G & C college, ref. BUR:MAP/02/02.1/01, entry no. 16
Stonehill Road (first houses built 1926)
1822 Granhams Manor court book
1969 Great Shelford WI Recollections, refers mostly to 1909-1939
Stonhill Way
1707 Terrier of lands belonging to Granhams Manor
Townend Lane
1751 Terrier of Parsonage Lands by John Aylmer, JCA
Town End Lane
1834 Claims for Enclosure UL Doc 652/8
Towns End Lane
1835 GS Encl Award Schedule
Towns End
1841 census (site of the Greyhound)
Townside/Towneside Lane
1707 Terrier of lands belonging to Granhams Manor
Tunwells Lane
1861 census
1871 census (or Tunwell)
Tunels Lane (phonetic!)
Tonnells Lane
1912 Postcard (in WI recollections as below)
1969 Great Shelford WI Recollections, refers mostly to 1909-1939 (relates that previously called The Lane)
Tunnells Lane
1886 Polling List
1910 Valuation Office Survey
1913 Polling List
Walden Way (ran across the open fields pre-enclosure)
1635 Terrier, G&C
1657 Terrier, G&C
1756 Terrier of Nuns’ Lands, JCA (in Beansend Field)
1773 Map of Buristead Manor demesne, G & C college, ref. BUR:MAP/02/02.1/01, entry no. 16 and others
Walding Way
1635 Terrier, G&C
1657 Terrier, G&C
Waldon Way
1635 Terrier, G&C
Water Lane from KML to Church St
1734 Buristead Manor court book
1816 Buristead Manor Court Book (I believe this refers to beginning of Tunwells Lane)
1834 Claims for Enclosure UL Doc 652/88 (I believe this refers to beginning of Tunwells Lane)
1835 GS Encl Award Schedule, allot. to E M Smith
Water Lane (appears to abut on the Green and run down to Freestones Corner)
1635 Terrier, G&C
1653 Terrier, G&C
1674 Terrier, G & C
Whittlesford Road
1834 Enclosure Commissioners’ Minute Book (laying out roads), refers to High Street/Church Street
Wheeler’s Lane extinguished at Enclosure
1835 GS Encl Award Schedule
Woodlands
1910 Valuation Office Survey
1911 census
1913 Polling List
1937 Kelly’s Directory
Woodlands Road
1908 PO Directory
1969 Great Shelford WI Recollections, refers mostly to 1909-1939
Woodland’s Estate
1913 Polling List
Woodlands Avenue
1937 Kelly’s Directory
Wollards Lane
1835 GS Encl Award Schedule
Woollards Lane Road
1834 Enclosure Commissioners’ Minute Book (laying out of roads)
Woollards Lane
1841 census
1851 census
1871 census
1910 Valuation Office Survey
1937 Kelly’s Directory
Woolards/Wollards
1861 census
Woollard Lane
1881 census
Woollard’s Lane
1913 Polling List (note that same document also uses Station Road)
Worts Causeway
?1830 First series Ordnance Survey map
1834 Enclosure Commissioners’ Minute Book (laying out of roads)
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