Woodthorpe Estate. Much of the municipal sections of this estate was developed in advance of 1935 25 inch OS publication. Mostly semi detached properties with front and rear gardens with some blocks of four adjoining properties. Most of estate (which is built on the geometrical principles typical of municipal housing before 1950) was complete by the 1958 1:1250 sheet SK 3985SW although later infill occurs throughout. This polygon traces the boundaries shown on pre 1930s OS of Woodthorpe Park, a designed landscape centred on a neo-classical country house and farmstead at SK319852. The park is first depicted on Sanderson's Map 'Twenty Miles round Mansfield' (1835, Derbyshire County Council reprint 2001). It main features consisted of grassland with specimen tree planting and a formal avenue leading ESE from the main house. A fishpond from within the park is the only feature preserved in the municipal development at SK395851. Woodthorpe is a place name meaning the farmstead in the woods. A grant of land from the year 1430-1 quoted by Hunter (1869,p481) records a 'bovate of land' a messuage and Woodthorpe Wood. No legibility of earlier types in this polygon.