Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Merrill College staged the concert featuring choirs from the Merrill Sing Up project, which includes pupils from Allenton Primary, Alvaston Junior and Boulton Primary schools.
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Oakwood is a modern housing estate in Derby, built mainly in the 1980s and 1990s.
It is one of the largest new housing estates in Europe and, as such, is a major settlement in its own right. It is situated on the outskirts of the city, bordering the suburb of Chaddesden, which is one of the largest council housing estates in England. Oakwood is built on land which used to be known as Chaddesden Common, It has three clusters of shops, the largest of which has all the amenities of a large village. The last new houses to be built in Oakwood were completed towards the end of 2001.
The original oak wood, from which the area is named, has been preserved as Chaddesden Wood Nature Reserve, and is maintained by the council. It is the only ancient oak woodland in the city of Derby. In 1991, it was declared a local nature reserve. The wood contains a nature trail open to the public, roughly one kilometre long. This is a popular resource for the people of North Derby and in Spring the wood is covered by a carpet of bluebells.
There is also a sizeable park surrounding a modern community centre, as well as many smaller areas, or "green wedges" that have been designed to provide routes throughout the estate for use by walkers and wildlife.
Public transport: There are regular Arriva Derby buses from Derby to Oakwood and Chaddesden. There is no railway station and the nearest mainline station is Derby.
Medical: The doctor's surgery in Oakwood is oat 380 Bishops Drive, tel 01332 281220. Oakwood Dental Centre is at 376 Bishops Drive, tel 01332 280557.
Sports and leisure: Springwood Leisure Centre is on Springwood Drive in Oakwood, tel 01332 664433. It has a fitness gym; workout studio; sports hall; squash courts; creche; new rubber filled synthetic pitch and a floodlit court.
