Torrington Park had been part of Henry Holden’s Friern Park estate lying east of the Great North Road.
Torrington Park was already being built up by 1872, when Holden’s land on the western boundary of the parish was misleadingly advertised as ’Torrington Park’, a freehold building estate. Most of the same estate (34 a.) was offered again in 1900 after Holden’s death, by which time most of his land east of Holden Road had been built up.
