News on Raploch Street Design

Is it Huntley, or Huntly Crescent? This is the question we’ve been asking ourselves the last few months. It seems there isn’t just one answer. Some people have told us that the ‘e’ belongs and others have told us that it doesn’t. So we decided to see if we could track down the missing ‘e’ and we found it hiding on an OS Map Published in 1951. So chances are, if you’ve called Raploch home for many years, and you remember the houses that stood in the area before their demolition then you’ll remember it this way.

However, something happened that would begin the great spelling debate just after the turn of the millennium. Until 2001 Huntley was commonly spelt with an ‘e’, but when the old houses on Huntley Crescent were demolished, so too was the letter ‘e’.

When the new houses were built they were registered with the address ‘Huntly Crescent’. It is very difficult to change an address after it has been registered, so it seems whoever put in the application, by design or by error changed the spelling forever for future inhabitants. This is the spelling that can be found on recently published maps and on Google Maps. A trace of the past still remains though, the popular Day Today shop may be just behind the council’s recently installed new sign for ‘Huntly Crescent’, but the building appears to be the only one we can find that has retained the ‘e’ in its official address.