Shortlands Road is named after Shortlands House.
Historically, Shortlands was known as Clay Hill.
The earliest known settlement was an Iron Age hillfort at Toots Wood, where traces of a Roman Camp and pottery has also been found.
A medieval field pattern consisted of sets of long and short fields, called Longelonds and Shortelonds. The latter fields at this point of the Ravensbourne river, ran at right angles up the slopes on either side.
Clay Hill became known as Shortlands and Shortlands House was built at the start of the 18th century.
The house with its extensive farmland was acquired in 1848 by a railway magnate William Wilkinson, who also built several cottages for his farm labourers.
Suburban development began in 1863 with the sale of the Shortlands House estate, making advantage of the railway station opened in May 1858.
Pearson & Cox was a British automobile manufacturer in Shortlands, trading from 1908–1916. In 1913 they manufactured both steam powered vehicles (cars and bicycles) and petrol powered cyclecars.
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Shortlands Road is named after Shortlands House.
