====== Cheylesmore info ======

===== Map =====

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Showing the district of Cheylesmore which is located on the south side of the City Centre of Coventry, UK. It bounds Whitley, Styvechale, Earlsdon and Coventry city centre.

[[http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.3883&lon=-1.5063&zoom=14&layers=M]].

If you have any further information, please email me on cheylesmore atsymbol rainsbrook  dot co dot uk.


===== Pictures =====

[[ch:MartyrsMemorial|Martyrs Memorial Pictures]] \\

===== Road Names =====

[[ch:streetnameorigin|Daily Telegraph, 1935 - How the streets in Cheylesmore were named]] \\


^ Place Name  ^ Information  ^
| Mile Lane  |    |
| The Martyrs' Close  | 12 Protestant martyrs who were burned to death at the stake under Henry VIII between 1510 and 1555 In "Little Park" (Little Park Street) (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A30652616) (See also Laurence Saunders Road in Radford)  |
| Thomas Landsdale Street  | One of the 12 Protestant martyrs  |
| Wrigsham Street  | Master Wrigsham, one of the 12 Protestant martyrs  |
| Hockett Street  | Robert Hockett, one of the 12 Protestant martyrs  |
| Joan Ward Street  | one of the 12 Protestant martyrs  |
| Glover Street  | Robert Glover, one of the 12 Protestant martyrs  |
| Silksby Street  | Robert Selkeb or Silksby, one of the 12 Protestant martyrs  |
| Cornelius Street  | Cornelius Bongey, one of the 12 Protestant martyrs  |
| Litchfield Road  | One of the locations of John Grace's sermons  |
| Queen Isabel's Avenue  | Named after Queen Isabel, a royal owner of Cheylesmore Manor.   |
| Hermit's Croft  |    |
| John Grace Street  | A Dominican monk associated with the Lollard Movement  |
| St Christian's Close  |    |
| St Christian's Road  |    |
| Lollard Croft  | see Lollard Movement above.  |
| The Mount  |    |
| Purefoy Road  | William Purefoy, http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/purefoy.htm |
| Galeys Road  |  |
| Baron's Field Road |  |
| Courtleet Road  | Court Leet - an ancient body made up of the High Bailiff, the Low Bailiff and the Court Leet Jury, http://www.west-midlands.police.uk/about-us/history.asp  |
| Frankpledge Road  | frankpledge was a form of collective responsibility for good conduct, (The Oxford Companion to British History), system by which each member of a tithing was responsible for every other. (The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology) |
| Calder Close  |  |
| Daventry Road  | The road leading to Daventry |
| Quinton Road  |  |
| Franciscan Road  | Monastical Order |
| Benedictine Road  | Monastical Order |
| Carthusian Road  | Monastical Order |
| The Hiron |  |
| Stoney Road |  |
| Humphrey Burton's Road  | Landowner, 1647, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=16011 |
| Townends Road  |  |
| Orchard Crescent  |  |
| Asthill Grove  |  |
| Asthill Croft |  |
| Adare Drive |  |
| Cecily Road  | Possibly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecily_Neville,_Duchess_of_York |
| Montalt Road |  |
| Crecy Road  | Battle in the Hundred Years War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Crecy) |
| Agincourt Road  | Battle in the Hundres Years War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt) |
| Black Prince Avenue  | Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Prince of Aquitaine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward,_the_Black_Prince) |
| Troyes Close  |  |
| Kent Close  |  |
| Eltham Road  |  |
| William Bristow Road  | Henry William Bristow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_William_Bristow) |
| Seneschal Road |  |
| The Park Paling | Named after the original medieval paling fence surrounding the Cheylesmore Estate. |
| Esher Drive |  |
| Rosegreen Close |  |
| Woodstock Road | Possibly Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince.  |
| Ebbw Vale Terrace |  |
| Poiters Road | Battle of Poitiers, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Poitiers |
| Arundel Road |  |


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