Shelton Lock is a small suburb in the south of the city of
Derby,
England,
United Kingdom, located between
Chellaston and
Allenton.
The area gets its name from the
lock on the
Derby Canal that once ran through the area. The only traces of the canal's existence are seen in the form of a road bridge, the lock stones, and a cycle path which covers it. The canal was shut in the 1960s but there are plans to re-excavate it. The site of Fullen's Lock is located just a few hundred yards along the present-day cycle path from Shelton Lock bridge, and a children's playground close to the site still bears the name.
Merrill College is the local
secondary school
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. It was located on Jubilee Road but was demolished – the new Merrill College is in Allenton (the old Thomas Moore school). The area also has an
infant
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and
junior school. Chellaston Road is the main road through the area, where a lot of inter-war private housing can be found.
The George V Jubilee Estate was built in 1935 to commemorate
King George V's silver jubilee and this lies to the west of Jubilee Road. St Edmund’s Church on Sinfin Avenue by the Derby architect
Arthur Eaton was opened in 1939.
The Sinfin Avenue estate was built in the 1970s, and includes a number of council and private houses. To the rear of the estate are fields and woodland, which are part of
Sinfin Moor – as well as the disused railway which goes towards Chellaston. Significant areas of these fields and woodland have now been built on forming the
Bonnie Prince housing estate.
A spur of the
M64 motorway was planned to pass through this area towards the
Rolls-Royce works. This was never built and the route was instead used for the
A50 road; Shelton Lock is connected to this by the
A514.
Gallery
Image:Newbridgeinn.JPG, The New Bridge Inn public house
Image:Sheltonlockshops.JPG, The shops, Chellaston Road
Image:Sheltonlockgp.JPG, The Golden Pheasant public house
Image:Derbybus.JPG, Number 60 bus travelling from Derby to Chellaston, on Shelton Lock bridge
References
External links
Photos of Shelton LockDerby CanalGeotagged photo album of Chellaston & Shelton Lock
{{Suburbs of Derby
Areas of Derby
Transport in Derby
Canals in Derbyshire
Locks of England