One of the most striking contrasts between King’s Newnham and Church Lawford is how the mapping has changed in the hundred or so years since the villages became locally owned and governed.
A postal delivery person from the Victorian or Edwardian period would probably have little difficulty negotiating the modern King’s Newnham, with a reliance on building names still prevalent, many being familiar from those times, even down to cottage numbering.
Church Lawford on the other hand has seen many changes in the central village area, even if the surrounding farms retain their identities.
Old cottage numbering has gone, new street names have been adopted, and housing development has spread into new streets and cul-de-sacs.
The following linked articles discuss and illustrate these changes
The 1918 Farm Auction Map – Church Lawford
The 1918 Village Auction Map – Church Lawford
The 1918 Auction Map – King’s Newnham
The 1921 Census – the most recently published Census
The 1921 Electoral Roll – an interwar view of the villages
The 1931 Electoral Roll – showing various housing changes
Lawford East Property Map – 100 years of maps of the same streets
Mid-Twentieth Century Detailed Maps
The 1950 Street Directory
The 1951 Street Directory – including post-war housing
Further Post-War Housing Provisions
The Street Naming and Numbering Decisions
The 1959 Street Directory – the last glimpse of the old cottage numbers in Church Lawford
The 1960 Street Directory – the formal adoption of street names
An alternative way of looking at the changes in both villages is discussed on the pages detailed a sequence of maps for particular areas – details here.
For nineteenth century maps and earlier, see the Old Maps page here.