Foredrift Close

Foredrift Close is a private estate of five bungalows built c.1977-8 at the end of Church Street on the Talbot Farm site that formerly stood there.

A drift or drove way is a road along which horses or cattle are driven and one of the many meanings of fore is 'a track'. A close is a small parcel of land or an enclosure of open fields. Hence foredrift is a track along which farm animals may be driven. These roads were not subject to toll and used mainly for long distance driving. They were not usually required to be kept in repair by the parishes through which the track passed.