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Old Spondon Roads

Town Street ran from the corner of West Road down in front of the old vicarage, until a new road was cut in about 1816, from the Derby Road up past the Parish Church, linking with both Moor Street and Locko Road, which was then called Stanley Highway.

Chapel Street was The Hollow until an Arminian Methodist Chapel was built in the 1830s where the Conservative Club now stands.

Potter Street was Hill Street.

Gladstone Road was Butts Yard.

Sitwell Street was part of Moor Street.

Dale Road was White Leys Road.

Chapel Lane was just a track: an extension to Hall Dyke and probably the route of an old road to Locko and Stanley.

Royal Hills Road was Windmill Post Lane.

Coxon Street was part of Brockley.

Park Road was Brandy Lane.

But where were Peckerdale Road, Goodedge Road, Brunswood Road, New Close Road, Waste Road, School Road, Brook Road, and Leys Gate Road, all of which appear on old maps of Spondon in our archives?  When we next advertise an Archive Evening, come along and see for yourself the way Spondon developed after the enclosre of the old three-field system.

Syd Lusted

Spondon Historical Society, July 2010