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Malton Street Map 1877 - Malton Memories

The intersection of Derry Road and Airport Road (6th line) was known as the Four Corners.

 

“In the 1840s, members of the Blanchard family cleared land northwest of the Four Corners and that area became the Village of Malton...In 1855, the village was subdivided into sharply angled streets named after English villages from which many residents had come.” - Passport to the Past Heritage Tours Book (1996), Anne-Marie Raftery, editor

 

“The village was surveyed and subdivided into lots in 1855 by John Staughton Dennis, with street named by local residents for their English villages back in their homeland. Dennis owned 90 percent of the 100 acre (40 ha) Malton site.” - Malton:Farms to Flying book by Kathleen A. Hicks www.mississauga.ca/file/COM/9634_MaltonBook.pdf

 

Studley is a large village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England.

Hull is in Yorkshire, England.

Beverley is in Yorkshire, England.

 

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Uploaded on August 4, 2012
Taken circa 1877