 The name of Hastings Close is linked to the Battle of Hastings, and the name of Dukes Drive is linked to the large local landholdings which used to be held by the Duke of Devonshire, and this road was built on land sold by the duke for residential housing in the 1930s.In the early 1960s the road leading off Littlemoor, by the side of the Goldminers public house, was named Windermere Road.It used to be called Bargh's Lane and had a row of old stone cottages.