Mrs June Prictor kindly contacted the Virtual Museum (in Sep 2011) with the following information on Church Way (originally known as Dog Hill) - linking Church Street with Salisbury Road:

In 1937/38 Hungerford Rural District Council contracted J. Wooldridge & Son Limited Builders, Contractors & Decorators of Canal Wharf, Hungerford to build nine semi-detached houses on land to the east of Dog Hill, with access leading to and from the main road.

Privet hedging was planted separating each semi-detached block, and to the rear chain link fencing separated the properties from adjacent meadows which formed a small holding run by Arthur White and his brother, whose dairy business was in Church Street (No. 6). Garden gates were not provided to any of the house entrances.

The land was originally a meadow and an area of grass, to the front (west) of the housing site, was planted with lime trees, a gravelled service track made to become known as Dog Lane and completely separated from the main road (Dog Hill) by an existing grass bank/hedgerow.

Council rules and regulations were clearly stated on the back of rent books. Tenants were expected to keep the whole area clean and tidy, including their individual gardens (rear and front) - they even kept the main road boundary hedgerow trimmed. In 1940 in spite of the country being urged to "Dig for Victory" and some tenants wanting to do their bit for the war effort, the Council would NOT allow ANYONE to cultivate the grass area, cut/trim the lime tree or even park vehicles thereon!

It was a lovely area in which to live. On the edge of the town, open views to the marsh, distant fields and woods, not acres of agricultural land as now, nor modern housing estates. My family moved from an old thatch roofed cottage in Oxford Street, Eddington into one of the houses in 1938.

Aerial view of Hungerford, c1945 (looking north), showing High Street (on right) and Dog Hill and Dog Lane (now Church Way) on left.

Dog Lane c1939
(Thanks to June Prictor)