{"id":17600,"date":"2024-03-22T19:47:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T19:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17600"},"modified":"2024-03-22T19:47:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T19:47:58","slug":"the-park-tunnel-from-derby-road-nottingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/17600","title":{"rendered":"The Park Tunnel from Derby Road, Nottingham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Park Tunnel was built in 1855 to allow horse-drawn carriages access to The Park Estate from Derby Road in Nottingham.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Park Tunnel from Derby Road, Nottingham\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TSkh1BDy0Uc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The tunnel which links Derby Road to the aptly named Tunnel Road is one of the Park&#8217;s most unusual and distinctive features. Its origins may go back to proposals made by the architect Peter Frederick Robinson for the area&#8217;s development in 1827.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Work on the tunnel was completed in May 1855, under the supervision of the architect Thomas Chambers Hine (1813-1899). Hine had been appointed as the duke&#8217;s surveyor, with particular responsibility for the development of the Park as a residential estate in 1854.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His influence on the Park is still evident on all sides &#8211; he designed the general layout of the roads and many individual houses. His approval of all other house plans ensured a high degree of control over building standards and maintained a consistency of architectural vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tunnel never fulfilled its expectations as a main thoroughfare into the Park. Development of other roads on the periphery of the Newcastle estate provided several more convenient routes, and the necessity for a tunnel had vanished almost before its completion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fun Fact: The Duke of Newcastle&#8217;s original requirement was for a tunnel with a maximum gradient of 1 in 14; the tunnel actually has a gradient of 1 in 12. Considered too great for horsedrawn carriages, this defeated the object of its construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tunnel is still in use, providing pedestrian access from Derby Road, Upper College Street and The Ropewalk to the Park, but remains a hidden gem in the city centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/manuscriptsandspecialcollections\/exhibitions\/online\/park\/tchine.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/manuscriptsandspecialcollections\/exhibitions\/online\/park\/tchine.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Insta360 Ace Pro &#8211; 4K Video 3840 x2160<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">nottingham #park #tunnel #insta360 #acepro #4k<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Park Tunnel was built in 1855 to allow horse-drawn carriages access to The Park Estate from Derby Road in Nottingham. The tunnel which links Derby Road to the aptly named Tunnel Road is one of the Park&#8217;s most unusual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/17600\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1603,1612,1608,178,1610,1609,15,1056,1256,1611,1607],"class_list":["post-17600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-acepro","tag-derby","tag-duke","tag-from","tag-hine","tag-newcastle","tag-nottingham","tag-park","tag-road","tag-ropewalk","tag-tunnel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17601,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17600\/revisions\/17601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}