Vanished Village

  

Derby - 1791

Fears over A38 works despite housing growth

The New House Farm development would add 1,100 homes to Mickleover and was approved in 2018 on condition that only a small portion of the homes would be occupied before the roadworks began.

Mickleover used to be a village located well beyond Derby as depicted on this 1791 map - Mickleover being towards the lower left. 

Even now, 1,100 extra houses is a large number. We may shrug and put it down to various explanations, but old maps such as this are interesting when they show how drastic some changes have been over little more than two centuries. 

To my mind, the map suggests that all is not well with our towns and cities. It suggests that our ability to plan for the longer term is a comforting fiction.