Maid Marian Way (Nottingham)
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Maid Marian Way / Google Earth Street View.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-05-05. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-05-05.
Planned in the years after WWII and constructed during the early 1960s, Maid Marian Way is a two-lane highway running through a central area of Nottingham.
In late 1945, Nottingham city council decided that a new road was needed to handle the steadily increasing volume of traffic passing through the centre of the city. The construction of Maid Marian Way was decided against the wish of many citizens by a council that ignored the opinion of at least one expert and criticism from the county history society, The Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, which declared that the project would constitute an “antiquarian calamity”. After years of heated debate and strenuous protests, construction began in 1963
Gazetteers
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.
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Discussion
- Smart, Andy. 'A Look Back at the History of Maid Marian Way - "Europe's Ugliest Street"', Nottingham Post (2018-02-11)
- [Weir, Chris, compil.]; [Smith, Nick, compil.]; [Dorrington, Mark, introd.] Nottinghamshire Archives, compil. Turning back the Pages in.... Maid Marian Way ([Nottingham], ©2011).
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