Kedleston Drive
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Kedleston Drive by Ian Capper as part of the Geograph project.
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Kedleston Drive
Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 24 Apr 2015
1950s housing on the Robin Hood Estate, so called because most of the road names in the area have connections with Robin Hood, inspired by the name of an area of woodland called Robin Hood Shaw which was on part of the site. However the connection here (the origin presumably being Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire) is less obvious, A short northern section of Kedleston Drive was laid out in the 1930s, being shown on the 1945 6 inch map (based on a 1938 revision) marked as Kedelstone Drive. The 1950 map again only shows the same section, by now with its current spelling. By the time of the 1960 1:1250 plan it is shown as fully developed, built on part of Covet Wood, with this photo showing part of this later section.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.389479
Longitude
0.094255