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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