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Heatherton Village (or Heatherton) is a residential area of Derby, England, located at the southern end of the village of Littleover, and approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) south west of Derby city centre. It comprises a range of modern housing, several public parks, shops, churches, a school and a nursery.
Burton Road, the A5250, leaves the A38 as Rykneld Road and becomes Pastures Hill just past Heatherton Village. At the top of Pastures Hill it crosses a junction with Hillsway and Chain Lane, whereupon it becomes Burton Road and remains so up to its junction with Babington Lane in Derby city centre.
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Derby Book Festival, first held in 2015, takes place in late spring/early summer, with events throughout the city. [99] An additional "Autumn edition" was first held in October 2019. Derby Festé [100] is a weekend street arts festival held at the end of September every year.
The DE postcode area, also known as the Derby postcode area, [2] is a group of 23 postcode districts in central England, within 11 post towns.These cover south and central Derbyshire (including Derby, Alfreton, Ashbourne, Bakewell, Belper, Heanor, Ilkeston, Matlock, Ripley and Swadlincote), parts of east Staffordshire (including Burton upon Trent) and north-west Leicestershire, and very small ...
David Deitch, a former Synanon member who co-founded Daytop Village with O’Brien, now sees the philosophy as fundamentally flawed. “It brought about a conversion for some without a willingness to look at the great masses that it didn’t work for,” he said.
The original village of Normanton-by-Derby, which now forms the southern part of the suburb, dates back to the medieval period. As the Normanton area became rapidly urbanised in the 19th century, the New Normanton area to the north was developed for housing, linking the old village to Derby, into which it was eventually absorbed.