Can anyone help decipher these Tewkesbury road names?

[student]

Morrell's Yard  and Middle Road
That's what I think.

[Geoff-E]

From the "Alleys" link posted earlier, it's undoubtedly Merrett's Yard and Middle Road.  I've lived withing 3 minutes' walk of the place for 30 years but never heard of Middle Road before.

I suggest you contact Tewkesbury Historical Society http://www.ths.freeuk.com/

I see the President most Thursdays so I'll ask him myself anyway.

[Yak3]

Middle Road is now known as Trinity Street - If you have a map - Merretts Yard was off Oldbury Road approx opposite East Street

[Geoff-E]

Middle Road is now known as Trinity Street

I saw Alan in Morrisons and he told me you were on the case

This puzzles me though - the Town Clerk's 1848 listing http://www.tewkesburyhistory.com/1848alleys.html has Trinity Street east of High St (no argument there) but

Middle Road. From Providence Place to Carron Brook Meadows. which doesn't sound like the same place at all

EDIT: I popped into the Library ... DAY/WOODARD believe it became renamed Station Street.

[Jme79]

Oh thanks for all the help on this! and glad others are learning something too 

[andyhewett]

Providence Place was the area of the Southern end of Chance Street  and so from the description in Tewkesbury Alleys 1848 we would have Middle Road as the Northern end of Chance Street or an extension of it.

However, a question was often posed in pub conversation "What was (or is) the shortest road in Tewkesbury?" and the answer was given as a section of road between the northern end of Chance Street and Cotteswold Road which was crossed by the old branch line to the original Tewkesbury railway station.

The 1848 Alley List gives Middle Road as having a junction with Station Street, but the wording seems to suggests that it was somewhat longer than the local tradition quoted above. I think the local tradition wins here.

Every trustable source I have come across ties in with the above.

Just a note on New Street and New Road. These co-existed in 1844 (Pigot's directory) and both had a beerhouse. They correspond to Trinity Street and Station Street.

I will do a little more digging and see if I can come up with a more definitive answer to Middle Road.

Regards, Andy Hewett (Capper),  tewkesburyhistory.com

[Arranroots]

Hi Andy

Welcome! 

And thanks for the contribution.  I see it was even picked up and tweeted on Twitter!  The Gloucestershire board is famous!

Kind regards, Arranroots 

[Yak3]

Re: Middle Road - just realised that I misread the reference on the Ancestry 1851 - it is in fact on enumerator's schedule 6g - this firmily puts it in the Oldbury area - i.e.:-

"All that part of the Parish of Tewkesbury called the Oldbury lying on the Left Hand Side of the road from Carron Brook Bridge to the new road at the back of Mount Pleasant"

Trinity Street is on the High Street Schedule so not the same place at all.

Apologies to all

[KatieKazoo]

Hi - There is an area of Tewkesbury known as Mitton. The second sample looks like Midden Road to me.  Possibly it's changed spelling over the years?

KK