Christian Malford Road

The High Street to the east of Sutton Lane used to be known as Christian Malford Road; see the old postcard (labelled incorrectly as 'Christain' Malford). The photo was taken from along the road, looking back towards the junction of Sutton Lane; a fingerpost pointing up Sutton Lane can be seen to the right. A modern photograph taken from roughly the same place (the edge of the '30 mph' zone) would show a very different view today; however, the distinctive hipped end of the thatched cottage on the right, at 74/76 High Street, is still much the same as it was.

But, for reasons known only to history and the Post Office, the houses on the south side of Christian Malford Road now have addresses on Sutton Lane. No 5 Sutton Lane is Forge Cottage, and is where one of the village blacksmiths used to be. In fact, this was still a blacksmith's until the 1920s, and is shown as 'Smithy' on the early Ordnance Survey maps. It is labelled as Number 51a on the coloured 1900 map.