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Fountain Dale Court, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 4QT

In 1833 a Select Committee on Public Walks recommended the creation of “properly regulated” public walks for the “middle and humbler classes” in order to improve “their cleanliness, neatness and personal appearance” and provide a venue for a man to show off his wife and well-behaved children. Such walks were seen as an alternative to the “drinking shops, where, in short-lived excitement, they may forget their toil, but where they waste the means of their families and too often destroy their health”. It became possible to implement these recommendations after the 1845 Enclosure Act, and by 1852 walks and other green spaces had been established in an arc north of the town centre, from Robin Hood Chase in the east, along Corporation Oaks and Elm Avenue to the Arboretum and the General Cemetery. The Forest recreation ground was also established. A journalist then wrote that “Nottingham might vie with any town in England for its well-grown and well-dressed women of the operative classes who on Sunday throng the park and public walks.” (All of this information comes from “The transformation of green space in old and new Nottingham” in Volume 118 of the Transactions of the Thoroton Society.)

Contrasting the houses of the 1970s redevelopment of the St Ann's area with the mid 19th century terraced villas on Woodborough Road.

Part of the series of pedestrian avenues created in 1851 as a result of the recent Inclosures to the north of the City centre. These are lime trees.

Whatever buildings once stood here to the north of Robin Hood Chase have been demolished.

The Jacobean-gabled houses are typical of those built in Nottingham in the 1850s, perhaps to the designs of T C Hine or an imitator. For more about Robin Hood Chase see Image

A view down Woodborough Road towards the stern front and Byzantine domes of St Augustine of England RC Church. Further away in the city centre the tower blocks of the Victoria Centre dominate the lower end of Mansfield Road.

The status of the walks along Robin Hood Chase, Corporation Oaks and Elm Avenue has recently changed: Nottingham City Council has designated this as public rights of way and cyclepaths.

There is an OS benchmark Image on the wall to the right of the wall pier to the right of the telephone kiosk

See https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7351940 for location. In practice, these walks, although for many years locked once a year to maintain their non-highway status, are now designated as pedestrian rights of way.

Part of the series of pedestrian avenues created in 1851 as a result of the then recent Inclosures to the north of the City centre. Not originally dedicated to the public under the Highways Acts, they are now formally designated as pedestrian rights of way.