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Originally Posted by Bob Dobson
I wonder just when the Napoleon St name came into being. This road was a turnpike and probably did not have a name such as we know when the turnpike was laid down ( although it probably was along the line of an existing road) It would be unusual for the name of an enemy to be used as a street name, and it is not surprising that it was changed to something else.
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I have just done a quick flip through the BMD records on the Lancashire Online Parish Clerk site for All Saints parish, Clayton. The earliest mention of Napoleon Street I can find is 1865, the latest 1895.
I wonder if the street name actually is in honour not of Bonaparte, but of Louis Napoeon, later Napoleon III, who was Emperor of France at the time of the Crimean War.
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