IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Porchester Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 6GR

Ordnance Survey documents indicate that a benchmark levelled at 123.682m above Newlyn Datum was verified in 1962 on the wall, which appears to have been rebuilt above its stone bottom layers

Recreating this 'First' for the square http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/39355

The entrance to "Duncan Macmillan House" from Porchester Road. This is the last remaining (operational) section of Mapperley Hospital and it was named after the last Medical Superintendent of this huge psychiatric hospital.

Eaton Street, off the B684 (Woodborough Rd), comes to a dead end here where it reaches the boundary wall of what was once Mapperley psychiatric hospital. Originally called the Nottingham Borough Asylum it was designed to meet the needs of the city’s 70,000 inhabitants. However, by the time it was opened in 1880 the population of the borough had swollen to 180,000, placing an even heavier demand on it than had been envisaged. Most of the hospital was closed years ago as part of a governmental "Care in the Community" strategy although parts of it continue to provide mental health care facilities.

Visited all possible gates to this well guarded reservoir compound. Formerly joint UA Top for Nottingham but hill 5527 Nottingham M1 is now believed to be higher. Name: Mapperley Hill number: 5528 Height: 130m / 427ft Area: 37: The River Tees to The Wash Class: Un Grid ref: SK 58790 43105 Summit feature: by reservoir gate Drop: 18m Col: 112m SK602449

Drivers and pedestrians successfully getting to the top of Porchester Road - the long uphill route from Carlton Road, NG4 (the B686) - are treated to this sight at the junction with Woodborough Rd, although sometimes it is more sunlit. The land and the covered reservoir inside the gate (and perhaps the house too) belong to the Severn Trent Water Authority, although the house appears to have been divided into several flats. To the left of the house the "Mapperley Ridge" radio transmitter can be seen, albeit that it stands on a separate plot of land. The "Water Board" site, the transmitter and the area beyond it, plus the area the left-hand side of this picture are in the NG5 postal area, Porchester Road acting as the boundary.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark levelled at 128.205m above Newlyn Datum in 1962

There is an Ordnance Survey benchmark Image on the road face of the brick pier

On the left is the entrance to Mapperley Hospital, which at one time was for the mentally ill