Street names of Bridgwater beginning with the letter I.
Imperial Way: Modern Little Sydenham Estate, post 2006 – date TBC. Little apparent significance: just a pleasing name to sound grand. Built over a field called Lower Blind Yeo (TAM), suggesting that this was the site of a silted up tributary or course of the Parrett – Yeo being a common river name, blind meaning it came to a dead end.
Indigo Walk: Post 2006 Stockmoor Estate, date TBC. Name of unclear significance. Possibly just refers to the vivid shade of blue.
Inwood Road: Wembdon. Name of unknown significance, although presumably related to nearby woodland. This road takes its name from Inwood House, reputed to be a pretty eighteenth-century house, shown on the 1840s Tithe Apportionment Map, although no pictures seem to survive of it. The road was built over its site by 1972 (Town Guide, 1972), although a portion of the front garden wall survives in the open ground by the junction. A very old drovers’ lane that adjoined the grounds of the house partially survives as the back lane of the southern row of homes.
Irene Close: (modern development, date TBC) One of a group of names remembering Bridgwater ships, including Petrel, Rosevean and Severn. The Ketch Irene was built in Bridgwater in 1907 and the last surviving and working Bridgwater-built vessel. The ship was named after Irene Symons, daughter of the brick-making merchant who commissioned her, on behalf of the company Colthurst-Symons (Reference Index p.30). Built over fields called Pill’s or Poll’s Door on the Tithe Apportionment Map.
Ivory Road: Post 2006 Stockmoor Estate, date TBC. Name of unclear significance.
Ivygrove Close: (late 20th c. Bower development – date TBC) One of a series of streets in a development, each named after trees types or groves, this one being named after the climbing plant.