In the early 19th century there were very few roads in West Bridgford which was then a small agricultural village.
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Anyone travelling south from Nottingham had to cross the River Trent at Trent Bridge where they could find roads leading to Grantham (later renamed Radcliffe Road), Melton, Loughborough and Wilford. A smaller road, Brook Lane, later renamed Bridgford Road, gave access to the village.
In the village there was Church Road, later named Church Drive, Rectory Road and Village Place which was at the junction of Rectory Road and Bridgford Road, about where Tudor Square is now. There was an extension of Rectory Road eastwards which became Albert Road and Mabel Grove.
When John Chaworth-Musters, the Lord of the Manor, started to sell land in Bridgford in the 1880s the first roads were laid out in a grid pattern around Musters Road which went due south from Bridgford Road near to Trent Bridge. The side roads were named after members of his family, his sons George, Henry and Patrick, and an earlier John Musters’ wife Millicent Mundy. His estate agent and friend William Lambe Huskinson of Epperstone Manor gave his name to William Road and one of his favourite sports provided Fox Road and Hound Road.
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Although the earliest draft plans for the development had these named as streets, they were quickly changed to roads to be more appealing to prospective tenants. There have never been any ‘streets’ in West Bridgford and this has continued. Instead we have several avenues, closes, drives, crescents and other less-used alternatives to road used when new names are needed.
Written by West Bridgford & District History Society.