The Meadows, Nottingham
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 The Meadows
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| The Meadows shown within Nottinghamshire | |
| OS grid reference | SK572385 |
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| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | NOTTINGHAM |
| Postcode district | NG2 |
| Dialling code | 0115 |
| Police | Nottinghamshire |
| Fire | Nottinghamshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
| New Meadows Estate | |
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Radburn style walkways, Manifold Gardens
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| Location | Nottingham, UK |
| Status | Stable |
| Area | 400 acres (160 ha) |
| Units | 995 |
| Constructed | 1970 |
| Construction | |
| Authority | Nottingham City Council |
| Style | Radburn |
| Refurbished | |
| Proposed in | 2009 |
| Proposed action | Demolish Q-blocks and de-radburnise |
| Designed by | Taylor Young |
The Meadows is an area of Nottingham, England located south of the city centre.
The area is close to the River Trent and is connected to West Bridgford in the Borough of Rushcliffe by Trent Bridge and the Wilford Suspension Bridge. Victoria Embankment runs alongside the River Trent to the south of the Meadows and is home to the Nottingham War Memorial Gardens. The Meadows is made up of two distinct areas, the Old Meadows; an area of predominantly pre 1919 privately owned terraced housing laid out in a traditional street pattern, and the New Meadows; an area of mainly social rented housing, built in a Radburn style layout following slum clearance in the late 1970s, and now being transformed into a more traditional layout by re-establishing vehicular access and reversing the orientation of some of the houses. Unpopular deck access maisonettes have been demolished. The Community, still reestabishing, has once again been displaced and dispersed after only 40 years.
The area is served by two tram routes, and two bus routes while a dozen more pass along the peripheral roads and it is a short walk to Nottingham railway station The Bridgeway shopping centre is a pedestrianised shopping precinct located in the centre of the Meadows. It provides a much needed focus for the community cohesion, but is also facing uncertainty about its future.
The Meadows is an area of Nottingham, due south of the castle and city centre., it lies entirely within Bridge Ward. The Meadows was originally a large area of wetland/floodplain which extended from the River Leen to the River Trent. After enclosure, this area was drained and gradually developed for a variety of uses, incorporating terraced housing, public houses, factories, warehouses and public buildings such as libraries and swimming baths.To the north it is bounded by the low red sandstone hill of Nottingham City Centre, to the south west, south and east it is bounded by the meandering River Trent: to the north and west by the Beeston and Nottingham Canal. Furthermore, it is separated from the rest of Nottingham by the A60, London Road that runs along the canal bank from Trent Bridge and the A453 Queens Drive/ A6019 Queens Road ringroad. A local distributor road Meadows Way runs in parallel to these roads for the entire length: The embankment of the Great Northern Railway ran to the north.
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