The Poplars
The Poplars gets its name from the Georgian house (demolished around 1965) which stood where 22 and 22A High Street are today.
In the 1911 Valuation Survey the property is described as a house, orchard and agricultural land comprising “brick and slate house; 2 front sitting-rooms; butcher's shop; back sitting-room; store, kitchen, scullery, cellar, 4 bedrooms, 4 attic bedrooms. barn, stabling for 3, loose box, coach-house (with loft over), slaughter house, cow pens, shed, piggeries, walled-in garden and old glasshouse. Good pasture orchard and garden.” The house was in the occupation of the Wheatley family.
The older houses in Seward Road are also built on the land belonging the Poplars.