Street |
Grid Reference |
Comments (if any) |
Academy Place |
J8 (see insert) |
Named for the Nineteenth Century navigation school of James
'Teapot' Rowe! |
Academy Terrace |
J7 (see insert) |
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Alan Harvey Close |
C5 |
Named after a former mayor. |
Albany Terrace |
D4 |
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Albert Road |
D3 |
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Alexandra Close |
B3 |
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Alexandra Road |
B3 |
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Alexandra Terrace |
C3 |
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Atlantic Terrace |
J8 (see insert) |
Faces the Atlantic (oddly enough!). |
Ayr Lane |
J8 (see insert) |
Nothing to do with Scotland. Seems to be either derived from 'Arth
Ia' - Ia's enclosure or 'Aire' meaning 'high place'. |
Ayr Terrace |
C3 |
See above. |
Back Road East |
K7 (see insert) |
Frequently mistaken for Back Road West ... |
Back Road West |
D2 |
... and vice versa! |
Back Street |
D3 |
Not to be confused with either of the above. |
Bahavella Drive |
D4 |
'Nook by the apple tree'. |
Baileys Lane |
K7 (see insert) |
Named after Captain Bailey. |
Barnawoon |
J7 (see insert) |
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Barnoon Hill |
D3 |
'Top of the down'. |
Barnoon Terrace |
J7 (see insert) |
See above. |
Beach Road |
C2 |
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Bedford Place |
J8 (see insert) |
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Bedford Road |
D3 |
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Bellair Terrace |
J8 (see insert) |
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Belyars Court |
D4 |
Derived from 'bellyer' - bell ringer. |
Belyars Lane |
D5 |
See above. |
Belyars, The |
D4 |
See above. |
Bethesda Hill |
K7 (see insert) |
Possibly named after the Pool of Bethesda
referred to in the Bible due to the similarity of the five porches of the
houses. |
Bethesda Place |
K7 (see insert) |
See above. |
Bishops Road |
D3 |
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Bowling Green Terrace |
J8 (see insert) |
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Bullans Lane |
C3 |
Possibly from 'bullace' (wild plum) or area once
referred to as 'Bull House Field'. |
Bullans Terrace |
D3 |
See above. |
Bunkers Hill |
D2 |
Named after the Battle of Bunker Hill during the
American War of Independence. |
Burrow Road |
K7 (see insert) |
There is a house called 'The Hobbit' in St. Ives
but sadly it isn't in Burrow Road! |
Burrows, The |
C4 |
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Burthallan Lane |
B3 |
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Camaret Drive |
D4 |
Camaret is a town in Brittany (France) which St.
Ives is twinned with. |
Carncrows Street |
K7 (see insert) |
'Cross by the rocks'. |
Carnglaze Place |
K7 (see insert) |
'Blue rock'. (Possibly a reference to the local
stone blue elvan, which is so hard even God walks in fear of it!). |
Carnstabba Road |
C5 |
Stabba or Stabbe may be a name, hence 'Stabba's
Rock'. |
Carrack Dhu Terrace |
J8 (see insert) |
'Carrack' is a rock and 'dhu' means black. |
Carthew Close |
C2 |
A corruption of 'carrack dhu' or from 'caer dhu'
meaning 'black fort'. |
Carthew Court |
C3 |
See above. |
Carthew Way |
C2 |
See above. |
Channel View |
C3 |
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Chapel Street |
J8 (see insert) |
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Church Place |
K7 (see insert) |
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Chy An Dour Close |
B4 |
House by the water. |
Clodgy View |
D3 |
Believed to mean 'isolation hospital'. Clodgy Point may have
been a leper hospital. |
Corva Close |
C4 |
From 'corvagh' meaning 'nook'. |
Corva Road |
C4 |
See above. |
Court Cocking |
J8 (see insert) |
Not, as often popularly assumed, the red light district!
Possibly where the 'cockyn' were kept. (These were the small boats used by
the seine fishermen). Or from the Cocking family. |
Crows-an-Eglos |
B4 |
'Cross (or crossing) by the church'. |
Digey, The |
J7 (see insert) |
Controversy rages over this one. Most commonly accepted
opinion is 'Dye House' relating to the treatment of nets to preserve them.
One alternative theory is that it refers to a 'farm house'. This might
seem odd in the middle of St. Ives but there is an area at one end of The
Digey called the Meadows, which is suggestive. |
Dinas Ia Road |
D4 |
'Ia's Stronghold'. |
Dove Street |
D3 |
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Fish Street |
D2 |
Used to be rows of fish cellars. |
Fore Street |
D2 |
Until the Wharf was built out and a road put on
it this was the main street for getting down to shore. |
Gabriel Street |
D3 |
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Garth An Creet |
B4 |
'Enclosure by the mound'. |
Gill An Creet |
B4 |
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Gwel An Wheal |
C4 |
'Field by the mine'. |
Gwel An Wheal Crescent |
C4 |
See above. |
Hecla Drive |
E6 |
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Hellesvean |
B4 |
'Little slope'. |
Hellesvean Close |
B4 |
See above. |
Hicks Court |
J7 (see insert) |
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High Street |
D3 |
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Higher Stennack |
B4 |
See 'Stennack'. |
Higher Tregenna Road |
E5 |
See 'Tregenna'. |
Higher Trewidden Road |
D4 |
See 'Trewidden'. |
Island Road |
K7 (see insert) |
The centre of the known universe. |
Island Square |
K7 (see insert) |
Actually a triangle. |
Kew Vean |
E6 |
'Little enclosure (or hollow)'. |
Manor Drive |
E5 |
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Market Place |
J8 (see insert) |
Site of the original medieval market. |
Market Strand |
J8 (see insert) |
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Meadow, The |
J7 (see insert) |
See note on The Digey. |
Mount Zion |
K7 (see insert) |
Site of the nineteenth century Mount Zion
Chapel. |
Norway Lane |
K7 (see insert) |
Nothing to do with Vikings it is basically northwards facing
hence, Nor' Way. |
Norway Square |
J7 (see insert) |
See above. |
Orange Lane |
C3 |
Yes, the climate is mild down here but it is
hard enough to grow any trees around here, let alone oranges! |
Parc An Creet |
B4 |
'Field by the mound (or barrow)'. |
Parc An Forth |
B4 |
'Field by the path'. |
Parc An Stamps |
B4 |
'Field of the (tin) stamps'. |
Park Avenue |
D3 |
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Pednolva Walk |
K8 (see insert) |
'Look-out headland'. |
Pen An Gwel |
C4 |
'Top of the field'. |
Pen Porth Avenue |
B4 |
'Top of the cove'. |
Penbeagle Close |
C4 |
'Shepherds hill' (or 'top of the hill'). |
Penbeagle Crescent |
B4 |
See above. |
Penbeagle Lane |
B4 |
See above. |
Penbeagle Way |
C4 |
See above. |
Penwith Close |
C4 |
Penwith is the district St. Ives is in. The
exact meaning is uncertain but 'penwith' may mean 'extremity' and was
originally the name used for Land's End. |
Penwith Road |
C4 |
See above. |
Porthia Close |
C5 |
'Ia's Cove' (i.e. St Ives). |
Porthia Crescent |
C4 |
See above. |
Porthia Road |
C4 |
See above. |
Porthmeor |
D2 |
'Big cove'. |
Porthmeor Hill |
D2 |
See above. |
Porthmeor Road |
J7 (see insert) |
See above. |
Porthmeor Square |
K7 (see insert) |
See above. |
Praze An Creet |
B4 |
'Meadow by the mound'. |
Primrose Valley |
E4 |
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Rope Walk, The |
K7 (see insert) |
Where ropes were spun. |
Rose Lane |
J7 (see insert) |
Possibly a corruption of Rowe's Lane, Mr. Rowe
being one of its earliest known residents or an ironic local reference to
a place that smelled rather bad. |
St Andrews Street |
D3 |
St. Andrew and St. Peter were latter day
additions as patrons to St. Ia. (i.e. as usual the church couldn't bear to
have a woman in charge!). |
St Eia Street |
K7 (see insert) |
'Eia' the original Celtic version of Ives before the
Anglo-Saxons got their spin doctors on the case. |
St Ives Road |
E6 |
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St Johns Walk |
B4 |
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St Peters Street |
K7 (see insert) |
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Salubrious Terrace |
J7 (see insert) |
I'm not making these up, you know. Honest! |
Sandows Lane |
C3 |
Named after a person. |
Sea View Place |
K7 (see insert) |
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Sea View Terrace |
D3 |
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Smeaton's Pier |
K7 (see insert) |
The main pier, built by Mr. Smeaton. |
Southfield Place |
C3 |
Literally where the south field was. |
Steeple Close |
D5 |
See below. |
Steeple Lane |
D6 |
The road up to the Knill Monument. |
Stennack Gardens |
C3 |
See below. |
Stennack, The |
C3 |
'The Tin Ground'. |
Street An Garrow |
J8 (see insert) |
'Rough Street'. (Well, it is next to the Three
Ferrets). |
Street An Pol |
D3 |
'Street by the Pool (or well)'. The lower end of
the street was once known as cut-throat alley! |
Talland Road |
D4 |
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Teetotal Street |
K7 (see insert) |
It's in the No Alcohol Zone as well. |
Terrace, The |
D3 |
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Towednack Road |
A5 |
Said to derive from the chapel of St. Tewennoc the
Confessor. |
Tregarthen |
C3 |
Possibly 'House by the Mountain Ash' or
'Garthen's Dwelling'. |
Tregenna Hill |
D3 |
'Dwelling at the entrance'. |
Tregenna Parc |
E5 |
See above. |
Tregenna Place |
J8 (see insert) |
See above. |
Tregenna Terrace |
D3 |
See above. |
Tregwary Road |
C3 |
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Trelawney Avenue |
C3 |
Arrr, Jim lad .... |
Trelawney Road |
C3 |
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Treloyhan Close |
E5 |
'Dwelling in the grove'. |
Treloyhan Park Road |
E5 |
See above. |
Trelyon Avenue |
D4 |
Corruption of Treloyhan. |
Tremar Road |
B3 |
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Trenwith Lane |
C4 |
'Dwelling by the trees'. |
Trenwith Place |
D3 |
See above. |
Trerice Place |
C3 |
'Farm by the ford'. |
Trerice Road |
C3 |
See above. |
Treverbyn Road |
C3 |
'Erbyn's Dwelling'. |
Trewidden Road |
D3 |
'White farm'. |
Venton Road |
E5 |
'Venton' is a well or natural spring. |
Victoria Place |
K7 (see insert) |
Named after some Queen of England whose name
temporarily escapes me!
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