Walton Street
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Walton Street
Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 5 Jul 2021
Housing in the mainly late 19th/early 20th Century development of "Sandridge New Town", an area of land between Sandpit Lane and Sandridge Road, originally outside the boundaries of St Albans and in the parish of Sandridge, prior to the extension of the municipal area in 1879, just south of where Boundary Road was laid out. These were the earliest houses in the road, shown on the 1898 1:2,500 map, the rest of the houses on this side of the road being built later on the site of St Peter's Brickworks, which operated from the area between Heath Road and Walton Street from 1882 to 1899 and which produced many of the bricks used for the early development of the neighbouring roads. Note the terracotta detail above the pair of doors, a feature which distinguishes this short terrace from those in the rest of the road, even though the general design is otherwise similar (see Image, for example). A similar feature appears on their immediate neighbours in Sandpit Lane - see Image
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Image Location
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51.758544
Longitude
-0.328037