Hi Keith
It looks like Gover, Mawer, Stenton and Bonner ignored it in 1934 because
Onslow Village had been established as a new town, named after Lord Onslow,
only a few years before. According to Wikipedia:
"The Onslow Village Association acquired 646 acres of land from Lord Onslow
in 1920 for approximately one quarter of its market value at the time. The
aim was to create a "Garden City" to be modelled on the ideas of Ebenezer
Howard's Garden City Movement. It was their intention to build a
self-contained community with smallholdings, public buildings, open spaces,
recreation grounds, woodland and a railway station, as well as developing
sites for churches, hotels and factories.
On May 1st 1921, ten weeks after the formation of the Association, the
foundations of the first two houses were laid and by March 1922 ninety-one
houses had been built. Unfortunately due to a lack of funding the scheme
never reached full completion, with about 600 houses actually being built.
Original drawings however showed that there were further plans to develop
the farmland at Manor Farm, north of the A3. By the mid 1970's, one third of
the properties were still owned by Onslow Village Ltd. Then, in 1984, the
company was wound up and many shareholders and tenants had the chance to buy
their homes at extremely affordable prices."
Best Wishes
Win
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From: The English Place-Name List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Keith Briggs
Sent: 09 October 2006 10:44
To: Win Scutt
Subject: Onslow Village
In PN Surrey, page 10, a reference is made to Onslow Village in Guildford,
but this name is nowhere explained. Why is this? Is it transferred from
one of the northern Onslows?
Keith
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