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Common Side Derbyshire Map

(Suburban Area)

Traditional county: Derbyshire · District / Borough: Amber Valley · Region: East Midlands

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Place	Common Side
Traditional County	Derbyshire
District / Borough	Amber Valley
Region	East Midlands
Country	England, United Kingdom

Latitude	53.009772
Longitude	-1.359303
Place Type	Suburban Area

About Common Side

Common Side unfolds as a quiet residential fragment of the Amber Valley, where the Derbyshire landscape begins to flatten into the steady, industrious rhythm of the East Midlands. It lies 0.4 miles south-west of Heanor (from Heanor: bearing 232°T, OS grid SK 430 460). The terrain here retains a lingering industrial memory, reclaimed by the expansive greenery of Shipley Country Park, which occupies the southern reaches of the locality and softens the transition between suburban streets and open meadow. Sunlight catches the brickwork of modest Victorian terraces, illuminating a place that exists in the long shadow of the coal mines that once defined this horizon. A short walk to the north-east leads to the Vacuum Cleaner Museum and Repairer, a singular curiosity that offers a strange, mechanical contrast to the surrounding quietude. The air in Common Side carries a slight, damp chill in the autumn, drifting up from the nearby reservoirs that punctuate the lower ground toward the south-east. Residents move through the day with a functional grace, traversing roads that once echoed with the heavy footfalls of colliers returning from their shifts. Common Side remains a place of understated endurance, where the modern suburban sprawl meets the deep, reclaimed clay of an older, harder working history.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Shipley Country Park (Park) — locality lies within
Vacuum Cleaner Museum and Repairer (Museum) — 0.3 mi, 028° NNE
Heanor Memorial Park (Park) — 0.5 mi, 079° E
Heanor Acorn Sculpture "Wings and Wheel" (Public Artwork) — 0.7 mi, 352° N
Osborne's Pond (Lake / Reservoir) — 0.8 mi, 146° SE
Coppice Lake (Lake / Reservoir) — 1.0 mi, 139° SE
Shipley Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 1.2 mi, 160° SSE
Hogg's Pond (Lake / Reservoir) — 1.2 mi, 130° SE
Wildlife Watching Area (Viewpoint) — 1.6 mi, 150° SSE
Nether Green Brook (River) — 1.7 mi, 061° ENE
Park Hall Moated Site, Well And Enclosure (Scheduled Monument) — 1.9 mi, 190° S
Eastwood Theatre (Theatre) — 2.0 mi, 070° ENE
Erewash Valley (Valley) — 2.2 mi, 104° ESE
Moated Site In Mapperley Park Wood (Scheduled Monument) — 2.2 mi, 175° S
footpath (Attraction) — 2.3 mi, 164° SSE
D.H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum (Museum) — 2.3 mi, 074° ENE
Codnor Castle (Scheduled Monument) — 2.5 mi, 005° N · 4 ha
The Bottle Kiln (Attraction) — 2.5 mi, 175° S
Denby Visitor Centre (Attraction) — 2.6 mi, 290° WNW
Ticknall Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 2.7 mi, 278° W
Jessop (Codnor) Monument (Monument) — 3.1 mi, 002° N
Bennerley Viaduct (Viewpoint) — 3.1 mi, 117° ESE
Cromford Canal (River) — 3.2 mi, 353° N
Erewash Museum (Museum) — 3.4 mi, 141° SE
Scala (Cinema) — 3.4 mi, 142° SE
Morley Brick Pits Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 3.7 mi, 224° SW · 2 ha
Sacheverell-Bateman Mausoleum (Monument) — 3.8 mi, 215° SW
Matthew Kirtley Building (Museum) — 3.8 mi, 342° NNW
Road Transport Building (Museum) — 3.8 mi, 344° NNW
Horston Castle (Historic Ruins) — 3.8 mi, 243° WSW

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