Grange Park: Caincross Close - the Loughborough road with a misspelt name
Caincross Close is one of the last streets on William Davis' Grange Park estate to be completed, in around 2020. The line of houses shown in the below photographs overlook a large, if basic, park with a footpath right through it and a playground plonked in the centre.
Now how do I say this...
The name of the road is misspelt.
Why? The roads on Grange Park (with the exception of roads developed on or running from the initial phase) are named after personnel at Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes. Beaumanor Hall, near Woodhouse, was associated with Bletchley Park in carrying out military intelligence during the Second World War.
However, checking a list on Wikipedia, I couldn't find anyone by the name of Caincross on the list (and that list is pretty comprehensive); instead, I came upon a guy by the name of John Cairncross, who worked at Bletchley Park and was also a Soviet double-agent!
So it is quite likely that the name of this road is indeed misspelt.
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