Introduction to the history of the
Upton Park plots
and their individual houses
Although the postal address house numbers belong to fairly recent
history they are used as the definitive locator
of a dwelling since housenames have often been changed
over the years.
However to journey through the houses in numeric order would not be
helpful and so the order in the book has been set very much from
the historical relationship between the dwellings.
As has been discussed in Chapter 1; the covenanted area
originated with 30 plots although only 24 were developed to provide
42 dwellings. A further 23 dwellings that form Upton Park
are outside the covenanted area and cannot be associated with any early
plot plan.
section A
Plots 16,17,18
House numbers 84;80;76;74;72
- plots originally owned by Pitt and then having some
inter-connected ownership for many decades.
section B
Plots 19,20,21
House numbers 66;68;64;70
- originally Shone's estate with one double villa, for many decades
, until grounds
sold for building development between the wars.
section C
Plots 22,30
House numbers 23;25;62;60
- originally owned by Pitt with the one double villa and
ground opposite until developed post-WW2.
section D
Plot 1
House numbers 56;58
- a double property built in the early days of the Park
section E
Plot 23
House numbers 19;21
- a double property built in the early days of the Park
section F
Plots 24,25
House numbers 13,9,11,17,15
- originally owned by Wood and one of the earliest double
properties which then some 25 years later had another
double property built in the grounds.
section G
Plot 26
House numbers 5,7
- a double property built in the early days of the Park
section H
Plot 27,28
House numbers 1,3,31,32
- a double property built in the early days of the Park
and a second double property a decade or so later
section I
Plot 29
House numbers 29;27
- the only Victorian single property on the inner circle with
a second property built in its grounds post-WW2.
section J
Plots 2 - 7
No Park houses built
- Plots taken out of the Park in the 1950s.
section K
Plots 8,9,10
House numbers 48,44,54,50,52
- Plots used for many years by Dicksons Nursery and then developed
1930 - 1965.
section L
Plots 11,12
House numbers 40,42,36
- a double property built in the early days of the Park
and a single property built in its paddock in the mid-1970s.
section M
Plot 13 & non-covenanted land behind
House numbers 32,34,32A
- a single property built in the 1890s which then used some of its
grounds to provide access to two modern bungalows built in 1960 & 1979.
section N
Plots 14,15
House numbers 28,30,24,26
- a single property built in the 1890s which acquired an orchard
plot, later used to develop two single properties in the 1960s,
and then in 1985 built a bungalow in its garden grounds.
section O
First development area on the southside of the lane to the mill
House numbers 12,14,16,18,20
- two double properties built early in the 1900s and a bungalow built
behind them in 1955.
section P
Second development area on the southside of the lane to the mill
House numbers 2,4,6,8,10
- five single properties built in the 1920s.
section Q
The mill and its former grounds
House numbers 86 - 104
- Upton Mill formerly in Upton Park and the residential buildings
developed in the 1960s
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