Scenes from the Knightthorpe and Ashby Road estates

Alan Moss Road looking towards the Epinal Way roundabout.

Open spaces are generously sprinkled across council estates; this one is on Alan Moss Road.

Rupert Brooke Road. Named after the World War One soldier and poet Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), part of this street was part of the former road between Ashby Road and Thorpe Acre,

Cranes building flats in the town centre seen from Thorpe Hill. These cranes are probably the tallest temporary structures in Loughborough at present.

Alan Moss Road at the top of Thorpe Hill. The railings ate that of the Mormons.

Thorpe Hill. The hill is home to several schools: Maplewell Hall, Ashmount, De Lisle and Charnwood College secondary schools and nearby Thorpe Acre Junior and Infant schools and Booth Wood Primary School.

Looking south downhill

At the bottom of the hill, two blocks of flats were built on the site of the Garendon Club.

Schofield Road is named after Herbert Schofield (1882-1963), principal of Loughborough College (later Loughborough University) 1915-1950. Underneath the road is a water mains, the Derwent Aqueduct, which carries water from northern Derbyshire to Charnwood.

The Whitworth Building.

Blackbrook Road is named after the Blackbrook, Loughborough's largest stream. It's not very close to the Blackbrook, however...

Sharpley Road.

Schofield Road looking towards Ashby Road from the junction of Sharpley Road.

Sharpley Road. The coffee bar is in the Hermitage Shopping centre, which also includes a Lifestyle Express and a post office.

Schofield Road looking uphill towards Thorpe Hill.

Ashby Road looking towards Loughborough from the end of Schofield Road.

This bus shelter now only caters for the hourly bus to Coalville.

New Ashby Road looking southwest. New Ashby Road, which runs parallel to Ashby Road, probably has the highest numbered house in Loughborough (although it cheated because it carries over numbers from Ashby Road.)

Houses on New Ashby Road, looking northeast.

New Ashby Road, looking northeast.

New Ashby Road, looking towards Schofield Road..

New Ashby Road, looking northeast.

Gracedieu Way. This staggered footpath runs between Gracedieu Road and New Ashby Road, and replaced a footpath running along the line of an earlier route of Ashby Road.

This wooden footbridge crosses the Burleigh Brook near Ashby Road.


Houses on Cotswold Close overlook the Burleigh Brook.

The junction of Blackbrook Road and Gracedieu Road.

Garendon Green.

The junction of Blackbrook Road and Gracedieu Road.

Garendon Green.

The junction of Blackbrook Road and Gracedieu Road.

Grace Dieu Court, off Garendon Green. This block of flats was built on the site of the Blackbird pub.

Garendon Green. The houses/flats have a rather unusual numbering system whereby flats with the doors on the side (and the two terraced houses) are odd-numbered and flats with the door on the front are even-numbered. Flats that look like houses; a rather clever invention if I say so myself.