Acton: Shaa Road
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Acton: Shaa Road
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 13 Oct 2010
To the stranger casually looking at a street map Shaa Road looks like a spelling mistake! Nonetheless here it is on site, complete with its road name plate and the old Ordnance Survey map of 1896 shows it with this spelling. A little Googling soon threw up the possible answer. It seems that the road is probably named after Sir Edmund Shaa, a goldsmith who was Mayor of London in 1482 and 1483 and an influential figure of the time in his dealings with Royalty. This is confirmed to a certain extent by the existence of The Goldsmith's Arms pub just around the corner from the other end of Shaa Road. The original properties in Shaa Road appear to have been built in the 1880s by George Wright and the area is now part of the Acton Park Conservation Area. This view is taken from Perryn Road.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.510881
Longitude
-0.26051