At present I can’t drive from Surfleet to Pinchbeck along the usual route because the road is closed for sewerage to be put into a new city housing estate.
I notice that the estate is called ‘Surfleet Green’. What a silly name. It isn’t in Surfleet and there’ll be precious little green left now that the front hedge has been ripped out. ‘Pinchbeck Grey’ would be a better name. Of course, people can plant trees but they need big enough gardens to be able to do that.
The destruction of another arable field is going on apace near the southern end of Crossgate Lane. Is it destined to be given a daft name and almost no space for anything green?
In Surfleet we have ‘Aridity Avenue’. We also have ‘Glenfields’, which makes me wonder if all the people there have heart conditions. If you’ve lived around here for a while you’re bound to have heard of someone who had to go to Glenfields for a very serious operation. I think it was originally called ‘Glennyfields’, which would have made so much more sense because Mr Glenny had a pear orchard in that place.
Patches of grass and two big trees have been left there, at the front. I hope they stay and if, in the future, the trees become too old to live any more, I hope they will be replaced by other trees.
Frances Richardson
Surfleet
