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Magdala Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 5DF

Magdala Road runs up the steep hill from Mansfield Road to Woodborough Road. Some of Nottingham's wealthiest Victorians and Edwardians built huge houses here, many with stables and coachmen's houses like the ones in this picture.

At one time this marked the boundary of Nottingham, as indicated by the marker http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3903440 on the right.

Looking down the hill towards Mansfield Road on a dull Sunday morning in mid June.

In 1869 this was still the municipal boundary. The marker is one of a number erected in connection with Poor Law area boundaries. Listed Grade II. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3903439 for location.

Redcliffe Road (then Red Lane) marked the northern boundary of Nottingham prior to boundary extensions in 1877.

A typical street in Mapperley Park. The Mapperley Park and Alexandra Park Conservation Area was first designated in July 1976 and extended in December 1976. This designation recognises its historic significance as an early Edwardian suburb built within a mature parkland setting. The large Conservation Area lies between Mansfield Road and Woodborough Road, extending to the east of Woodborough Road to include Alexandra Park, with its northern boundary generally defined by Private Road and its southern boundary defined by Mapperley Road. Mapperley Park and Alexandra Park developed as an exclusive suburb for the Edwardian middle classes. Speculatively built and completed over a period of over fifty years, properties display a range of styles from the late 19th through to the mid 20th century. The Conservation Area includes many good quality examples of the range of Vernacular Revival styles that defined the late Victorian and Edwardian periods; with Gothic and other Victorian styles on the edges of the area contrasting with the more homely individualistic styles of the 20th century Vernacular Revival that comprise the core of the estate.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm47925

There is an OS benchmark Image at the base of the wall under the Elm Bank Drive name sign

The part of Nottingham north of Mapperley Road was developed from the 1870s onward as a suburb for the relatively affluent. Many of the older houses are hidden behind high walls and trees. This house is relatively visible. It appears to have been built using local brick and is decorated in part with terracotta.

The picture gives an idea of how steep this road which links Mansfield Road and Mapperley and Woodborough Roads is. In the distance on the right is a grand, rather Germanic-looking house, higher up on Mapperley Road.