Beaumont Street
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Beaumont Street is, in effect, a continuation of Selbourne Street which runs from Kingsley Road (at the Windsor Hotel) to Lodge Lane. It is part of a small hamlet,originally called "Windsor" which developed independently, before the rest of Toxteth which later expanded to engulf it.. It is worth noting that Beaumont Street was originally called 'Stanhope Street , Windsor' . It is found as such in Gore's 1860 trade directory thought the 1851 Ordnance Survey map clearly shows it as Beaumont Street, with no development on the even numbered side, just open fields, a ropery and St Clements Church. The line from Stanhope Street proper, is not exact and the two were never apparently joined, early maps show a discontinuity and when the streets were built through, the older name was soon dropped and replaced by Beaumont Street (though a few maps of the time show Beaumont Street labelled as Upper Stanhope Street).

From the Windsor Hotel (on the odd numbered side)  it runs gently uphill (bench marks show that it gains 25 feet in altitude along its length), it includes junctions with Embledon Street, Harold Street (called Castle Street in 1860) and Lorton Street. The even numbered side has junctions with Alt Street, Dove Street and Priest Street and then passes a Corporation yard (originally part of the Toxteth and Harrington Water Company premises before Liverpool Corporation took this over.) and a few last houses before its junction with Lodge Lane. 

Beaumont Street includes the church of St Clements on the even numbered side.

The odd numbered side include two further pubs, The Windsor Castle (no picture) and The Rob Roy (left)

This quite short street spans three maps

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