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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]A development! When I first came across the name "Askey Sic," it was used to describe the path leading from Marlpool to Shipley Hall. I later discovered the name on a map indicating a well in the area of the Marlpool estate. I was at a family get together today (fascinating idea - everyone who was the grandchild of my grandparents was invited - plus partners - loads of people, some of whom I'd never met before, even at funerals - and, in our family's case, a huge age range, from 46 to nearly 80!). Somebody at the do referred to the "Sic," which was the name they used, post-war, for the footpath which led down from Heanor Road onto Ridgeway, at the side of Mundy Hall. The estate was built after the war, but this name will undoubtedly have been a throwback to the earlier name of the path. I had assumed that the path will have been along the route of Sunningdale Avenue, but I now think that the path was down through what became Ridgeway, then probably through the woods at the bottom of Holmesfield Drive, then onto Buxton Avenue and thence to Shipley Hall. I suspect that somewhere along this route will have been the location of the well. (I shall have a walk one day!) [/quote]
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The Well
replied on: 8/21/2005 8:40:08 PM

A development!

When I first came across the name "Askey Sic," it was used to describe the path leading from Marlpool to Shipley Hall. I later discovered the name on a map indicating a well in the area of the Marlpool estate.

I was at a family get together today (fascinating idea - everyone who was the grandchild of my grandparents was invited - plus partners - loads of people, some of whom I'd never met before, even at funerals - and, in our family's case, a huge age range, from 46 to nearly 80!).

Somebody at the do referred to the "Sic," which was the name they used, post-war, for the footpath which led down from Heanor Road onto Ridgeway, at the side of Mundy Hall. The estate was built after the war, but this name will undoubtedly have been a throwback to the earlier name of the path.

I had assumed that the path will have been along the route of Sunningdale Avenue, but I now think that the path was down through what became Ridgeway, then probably through the woods at the bottom of Holmesfield Drive, then onto Buxton Avenue and thence to Shipley Hall. I suspect that somewhere along this route will have been the location of the well. (I shall have a walk one day!)

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