Wilmorton

Wilmorton is a suburb of the city of Derby, England. It is situated between Alvaston and Osmaston, to the south of the city centre on the A6. It was given the name Wilmorton in 1897. In the late 1990s, a new section of the A6 was built from here to "The Cockpitt" roundabout, passing through Pride Park, known as Pride Parkway. In 2006, the Wilmorton campus of [http://www.derby-college.ac.uk Derby College] (known as Derby Tertiary College) was knocked down and redeveloped as housing. Some of the college facilities were transferred to a site on Nottingham Road called Mason's Place, and some to the main site in Mackworth.

In 1796, the Derby Canal was built through Wilmorton which helped to bring a lot of trade to this area. The canal was closed in 1964 and converted to a cycle track, but work is being undertaken to restore it. A local public house next to the canal is named "The Navigation". The other public house in Wilmorton is the "Portland Hotel"; this is on the corner of the London Road and Deadman's Lane. Deadman's Lane is aligned to the old town boundary, and is so named because victims of the Black Death were buried there (the burial site is now under Pride Park).

External links

* [http://www.derbyphotos.co.uk/areas_p_z/wilmorton.htm Photographs of Wilmorton]