Lily Lake.

The roads which are now Coach Road, Park Close, Livingshayes Road, Oak Close and Hillcrest were all known as Lily Lake until the 1960s. The name Lily Lake is usually believed to be a corruption of the name Heal Eye stream which is the waterway that runs alongside the bottom of Park close. This is shown as Heal Eye strem on old maps of the village. In the days before Wyndham road was built Lily Lake was a distinct area seperate from 'the town', as the main village was known and there were gang fights between children from Lily Lake and 'the town'. Most of the inhabitants of Lily Lake were employed in the paper mills at Ellerhayes or Hele which also added to the distinct nature of the area. The other defining feature of the area was that the housing there was overwhelmingly local authority owned..

The individual character of the area was eventually broken up, first by the naming of the individual roads and later by the construction of Wyndham road which helped to integrate the Lily Lake area into the village but up to this day you can still hear older vilagers referring to the area as Lily Lake. The large scale sell off of council housing in the 1990s and later,came after Lily Lake as a distinct entity had ceased to exist.