The Chimes estate is one of four new housing estates in the southern side of Loughborough. It was built by David Wilson Homes between around 2017 and 2019, and I went inside this medium-sized estate for the first time this April. The drainage pond at the eastern end of the estate, at the end of John Boden Way, as seen from Allendale Road. On the far right is the Woodthorpe Lodge Care Home. Houses on John Boden Way, at the front of the estate, facing Allendale Road. The entrance to John Boden Way, on Allendale Road. John Boden Way, as seen from its entrance with Allendale. John Boden Way is named after John Boden, a business partner of John Heathcoat, who was the inventor of the twist net lace machine. Houses on John Boden Way facing Allendale Road. John Boden Way, looking towards Braid Close. John Boden Way. There is a park at the centre of the estate with a split playground, which seems to have been on the site of a playground that jutted out of the neighbouring Shelthorpe estate int