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Abbotsbury Road is a residential road in the Holland Park area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, West London, England. [1] The road links the street Holland Park to the north with Melbury Road to the south, known for the Holland Park Circle of artists. There is a junction with Ilchester Place to the east. The parkland of Holland ...
A 19-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after a man in his 70s suffered injuries to his head and face in an attack. Dorset Police said it happened on Abbotsbury Road in Weymouth ...
A man his 70s has died more than a week after an assault that left him with serious head and facial injuries. Dorset Police said the attack happened on Abbotsbury Road in Weymouth shortly before ...
Abbotsbury is connected to those towns by the B3157, which is the main road running through the village. Abbotsbury is located 6 miles (10 km) from Upwey railway station and 35 miles (56 km) from Bournemouth International Airport. The coastline within Abbotsbury civil parish is part of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. [6]
Westham was established as a new suburb of Weymouth from the early 1880s. [1] In 1880, the largely undeveloped Abbotsbury Road, along which Westham was centred, saw the construction of a number of residential properties, a chapel of ease, a schoolhouse and a steam laundry operated by the Weymouth Sanitary Steam Laundry Ltd. [2] The name Westham was decided upon during a meeting of "owners and ...
Abbotsbury was the terminus of the Abbotsbury branch railway in the west of the English county of Dorset.Serving the village of Abbotsbury, it was sited amid fields to the east of the village on the Weymouth to Abbotsbury road, because the railway could not buy the land needed to build the station nearer to the village centre.
Ilchester Place runs from Abbotsbury Road to the west, turning south to join Melbury Road. Large expensive houses on the north side of the street back onto Holland Park itself. [ 4 ] In December 2021, it was named the sixth most expensive street in the UK, with an average house price of £16.3 million.
The estate was, at the time, the largest local authority development in South London and has its road names arranged in alphabetical order, from the North-West corner (Abbotsbury Road) to the South-East corner (Woburn Road). Reflecting the previous ownership of the land by Westminster Abbey, all are named after religious establishments.