West End of Victoria Road Chesterton

History of west end of Victoria Road

Victoria Road was already being developed by the mid 1850s but no street numbering appears in the census until 1901. This makes identification of houses time consuming.

At the west end of Victoria Road whilst it seems relatively straightforward to identify the houses on the north side between the two pubs, The Horse and Gate and the Carpenter’s Arms, the numbers of households recorded to the west of the Horse and Gate in 18501 and certainly in 1861, seem far too high to fit the available housing on the north side of the street. However the 1885 OS 25ins map seems to show housing running north along a lane known today as Brigg’s Passage.

One of these households was that of Thomas Clark. It is not possible at the moment to locate his house, though it would have been close to the junction with the Huntingdon Road.

1851

Thomas Clark, 36, brewer, b Grantchester

Ann, 27, b Haslingfield

William Ling, 16, b Haslingfield

Alice, 9, b Grantchester

Thomas, 7, b Grantchester

Ann, 4, b Grantchester

Sarah,  2, b Chesterton

In 1861 Thomas is at The Champion of the Thames in King Street.

In 1871 William Ling Clark is living at back of North Terrace off Histon Road. He had married Louisa Longland , b 1838, in 1864.