Fountains Crescent

Another of the thematically-named post-war housing estates is that at Ham, a number of the streets here were built around the late-forties, early fifties and are named after places with Abbeys or monastic connections - like Dryburgh (Borders) Crescent, Malmesbury (Wiltshire) Close, Wenlock (Shropshire) Gardens and Fountains Crescent.

 Fountains Abbey is in North Yorkshire and the remains of the twelfth century Cistercian buildings are today a major tourist attraction. The name itself is said to come from the old French "fontein", meaning fountain or spring and came about because of the springs found there when the monks, who came from St Mary's in York, first began preparing the site for building. Early records show that it was originally known as Sancta Maria de Fontibus.