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The Darby Creek Trail is a mile-long trail that follows the creek in Haverford Township and is anchored by Merry Place, a park and nature area at its southern end. [25] A multi-use trail along Darby Creek has been proposed. The trail would run from Garrett Road in Upper Darby Township to Pine Street in the borough of Darby. [15]
Its eastern terminus is at a Cobbs Creek bridge in Darby, Pennsylvania. Past this bridge is State Route 3023, which continues into Philadelphia. SR 2005 is known as Darby Road in Haverford Township, Lansdowne Avenue from U.S. Route 1 to Darby, and Main Street in Darby.
Cobbs Creek is an 11.8-mile-long (19.0 km) [1] tributary of Darby Creek in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It forms an approximate border between Montgomery County and Delaware County. After Cobbs Creek passes underneath Township Line Road (U.S. Route 1), it forms the border between Philadelphia County and
Ithan Creek (also known as Ithan Run [1]) is a tributary of Darby Creek in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately 4.2 miles (6.8 km) long and flows through Radnor Township and Haverford Township. [2] The creek's watershed has an area of 7.39 square miles (19.1 km 2) and is highly developed.
The Haverford Township Historical Society maintains a survey of historic resources notable to the township. Haverford Township c. 1902. Historic roads. The Haverford Road is one of the earliest roads laid out by civil ordinance. Dates for its layout and completion vary from 1687 to 1703. Darby Road, known earlier as Coopertown Road, dates from ...
US 1 curves northeast and crosses Darby Creek into Upper Darby Township, where it heads into business areas. State Road splits to the northeast and the route becomes Township Line Road, which heads north into Drexel Hill as a four-lane undivided road through residential neighborhoods.
The two creeks that mark part of the township boundaries, Cobbs Creek and Darby Creek provided mill seats for the early settlers. "As early as the year 1688 a small grist-mill, known as the "Haverford Mill," was built on Cobb's Creek, near where that stream is crossed by the road leading past Haverford Meetinghouse .
Drexel Hill is located in the western part of Upper Darby Township at (39.949962, -75.301841 The neighborhood is eight miles from Center City, Philadelphia and is bordered to the north by Haverford Township, to the east by the Kirklyn, Highland Park, Beverly Hills, and Bywood neighborhoods in Upper Darby Township, to the southeast by the borough of Lansdowne, to the south by the borough of ...