dampier place
dampier place
Named after the Dampier family
Dampier Place was named after Thomas Dampier, a wealthy glove manufacturer with a glove factory and dressing yard to the north of Reckleford which was probably located on the site where Dampier Street lies today. The Dampier family had, from the end of the sixteenth century, been associated with the Manor of Kingston.
Dampier Place, a short terrace of four dwellings, was built around 1900 at the northern end of Dampier Street, on the north side of the track leading to the brick kiln. The houses of Dampier Place are the only Victorian houses in the immediate area that survive.
maps
Map based on the
1901 Ordnance
Survey showing
Reckleford
running across
the bottom of
the map with
Kiddles Lane ((now Eastland
Road) at right.
Dampier
Street is at
centre and
Dampier Place
was newly-built
on the north
side of the
track leading
off west to the
brick kiln.
gallery
Courtesy of Rob
Baker
Dampier Place, photographed in 1907.
Dampier Terrace photographed in 2013.
