Shelton Lock

Shelton Lock is a small suburb in the south of the city of Derby, England, United Kingdom, located between Chellaston and Allenton.

Shelton Lock
Shelton Lock bridge
Shelton Lock Location within Derbyshire
OS grid reference	SK375313
Unitary authority	Derby
Ceremonial county	Derbyshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	DERBY
Postcode district	DE24
Dialling code	01332
Police	Derbyshire
Fire	Derbyshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	South Derbyshire[1] (Derby South from the next general election)[2]

Derby Canal
Erewash Canal Sandiacre Bottom Lock Sandiacre Top Lock  M1  embankment Smithy Houses (Long Eaton Gangway) Borrowash Bottom Lock Station Road bridge Borrowash Top Lock Little Eaton Wharf Duffield Bridge feeder Bottle Brook feeder Top Lock Middle Lock Chemical Lock Pasture Lock River Derwent Darley Abbey Mill Derby to Chesterfield Railway St Mary's Bridge Phoenix Lock Syphon to Day's Lock Weir White Bear Lock Derby Long Bridge Weir Pegg's Flood Lock Aqueduct over Mill Fleam Gandy's Wharf Derby to Burton Railway River Derwent Day's Lock Syphon from White Bear Lock Shelton Lock Fullen's Lock Derby to Melbourne railway  A50  road culvert Trent and Mersey Canal River Trent locks (3) River Trent

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. 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 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.[3] 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

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  The New Bridge Inn public house
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  The shops, Chellaston Road
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  The Golden Pheasant public house
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  Number 60 bus travelling from Derby to Chellaston, on Shelton Lock bridge

References

1. "Ordnance Survey Election Maps website". Ordnance Survey.
2. "Ordnance Survey Election Maps website". Ordnance Survey.
3. "C20 Churches. St Edmund". Twentieth Century Society. Twentieth Century Society. Retrieved 16 June 2020.

External links

• Photos of Shelton Lock
• Derby Canal
• Geotagged photo album of Chellaston & Shelton Lock