Derwent Drive

 Derwent Drive is a street located in the Loughborough suburbs north of Forest Road, running between Coniston Crescent and Kirkstone Drive. A peculiar feature of this street is that the Derwent Main, a predominantly underground aqueduct channelling water from northern Derbyshire to Charnwood, runs under this street, and therefore it is part of a peculiarly straight strip of unbuilt area running all the way through the western side of Loughborough, running from Pear Tree Park in the north, through Gorse Covert Park (erroneously referred to as Bunny Hill), Jubilee Park, Charnwood College, Schofield Road, Robert Bakewell Hall on the university and Derwent Drive itself before running alongside Mardale Way, through private gardens on the Brook Lane estate and back out into the countryside.

You may have figured out by now what Derwent Drive is named after.

Yes, a giant water pipe.

(You may be interested to know that the aqueduct is actually visible where it crosses the Blackbrook north of Jubilee Park and south of Thorpe Hill where it crosses the line of the Charnwood Forest Railway.)

These pictures were taken last October.

Derwent Drive as seen from Coniston Crescent.

Derwent Drive, looking towards Coniston Crescent and a pedestrian entrance to the university.

Derwent Drive is split in the middle by a pedestrianised section with a small row of shops, seen here from Holywell Drive.

Looking uphill from Holywell Drive.

More views of the shops.

Yarnbombing on railings at the bottom end of the shops.

The other half of Derwent Drive, seen from Rydal Avenue.

Looking north toward the shops.

The aqueduct continues on in a straight line under this footpath.

The street sign at the very bottom of Derwent Drive.

Derwent Drive as seen from Kirkstone Drive.