History of a street · 1180 Uccle

Avenue Winston Churchill

In Dutch: Winston Churchilllaan

Avenue Winston Churchill, in Uccle, has 181 buildings on the Atlas map, for 232 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1945 to 1969, with 40% of the buildings, but the street was built in several stages. Almost everything there appears after 1914.

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When the street was built

  • before 14000
  • 1400 – 15990
  • 1600 – 16990
  • 1700 – 17990
  • 1800 – 18490
  • 1850 – 18790
  • 1880 – 191314
  • 1914 – 194437
  • 1945 – 196972
  • 1970 – 198924
  • 1990 – 200924
  • since 201010

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 92: 1880. 33 buildings in the street are dated by the heritage inventory.

Today's buildings, grouped by the period when the Atlas map first shows building on their plot. Approximate reconstruction.

Where its name comes from

Kind of name
Commemorative name
Theme
Foreign figure
Named in
1944

Appelée à l'origine avenue de Longchamps, elle fut rebaptisée après-guerre en honneur du célèbre Premier ministre anglais Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) qui accueillit de nombreux gouvernements en exil durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et participa activement à l'issue du conflit. (remark in French, as published)

Source: Odoniris, database of Brussels street names (EBxl), CC BY-SA 4.0.

On this street

Illustration: shrimp croquettesBelgian restaurantLes Brasseries GeorgesAn Art Deco brasserie on the edge of the Bois de la Cambre, open almost non-stop.Uccle