New Hucknall Colliery

First phase of redeveloping the past industrial pit yard into a large residential estate begins by lining north side the former Pit Road entrance with housing addressing a c2001 surfaced Mill Lane roadway extending off Common Road, beyond a corner salesroom.

Branching streets offer best reflective naming for New Hucknall Waye and The Head Stocks. They enter into All Saints View, which also loosely ties in local industrial history, before further extending into vaguer choices of address such as Norfolk Gardens.

Norfolk Gardens backs up to a slightly extended Cross Lane. That just gave access to another separated 2007 Huthwaite housing development newly addressing Mercia Court. Year likewise dates rear walled privacy replacing 2004 Norfolk Gardens fencing.

Nottinghamshire County Council had purchased some of the disused 1986 grounds including the former pit tip. Creating a broadly used busy landfill site didn't deter initial Mill Lane residents facing extended waste tipping, before ultimately opening Rookery Park.

Any recent occupants might be confused regarding choice of a Mill Lane address, considering there never has been a through road directly connecting a windmill which had stood two centuries before off Sutton Road. But that original muddy farm track had given a postal address beyond lowest Greenwood Falls Farm, as walked into colliery grounds left fronted by housing and offices premises.

Comparison overlooking the past industrial site some two decades later exposes coverage so far of this first phase along Mill Lane.

Major redevelopment followed Jan 2008 demolition of those commercially adopted offices to finalise Mill Lane cornering housing.

Last standing remnants of New Hucknall pit are a row of privately owned Colliery built houses retaining original Mill Lane address. Their redundant chimney stacks hark back when all Huthwaite housing had been designed for coal fired heating, Coal also began producing mains gas for lighting then cooking before New Hucknall coals largely fuelled Nottinghamshires electric power stations.

Mill House Gardens

Full March 2008 clearance of past industrial grounds introduces second phase of planned redevelopments very remotely called Mill House Gardens. Despite that pleasantly desirable sounding title, all its streets favoured agricultural termed addressing, presumably inspired by chosen name for a designated parkland recognising a neighbouring Rookery Lane Farm stood in southern Fulwood.

Harvest Lane

Harvest Lane extended a straight 2011 road beyond Mill Lane corner to further edge south extreme beneath a then closed landfill. The digger sighted overhead carried on work layering base coverage for future meadow walks across Rookery Park footpath trails.

Lower Meadow Lane

Leaving a gap dividing Harvest Lane curved a through road along Lower Meadow Lane connecting up a northern Mill Lane entry. Branched off that then named Ploughmans Grove and Farmers Close, totally dismissing their industrialised pit ground heritage.

Brierley Hills ?

Advertising 2012 signed addition of a final confusing Brierley Hills housing development found entry far north yard Mill Lane. That's ended up addressing Windmill Waye. Looping back on Parkland View managed best descriptive relevance facing Rookery Park.