Mickleover is 2 miles outside of Derby and despite the main supermarket in the village, the Old Market Place and Orchard Street around The Square means that the village retains its old character. The Great Northern Railway which arrived in 1876, meant the number of houses expanded in the village which has continued ever since. In 1968, the boundary of the city of Derby was extended and absorbed the village.

Factoids

• The Old Hall in Orchard Street is the oldest building in the village
• Oliver Cromwell stayed at the Old Hall during the civil war
• All Saints Parish Church is 14^th century although it was restored in the 19^th century
• The Community Centre used to be a National school for Boys and Girls in 1881
• Britain's 1st Children's matinee was shown at the local school
• The Nags Head pub used to have an old Pullman railway carriage in its garden

Mickleover community centre, this was previously a public elementary school which was built in the late 1870’s and admitted the first children in 1881. The school was enlarged in 1905 and the infants were eventually transferred from the existing school in Fennel Street (Limes Avenue) in 1916. The School continued as an all age school until 1948-50, when the senior children were moved to Pastures Hill Secondary Modern or Ashbourne Grammar School. The School then became the junior mixed and infants school with Mr. J.W. Best as headmaster. In 1957 the junior children moved into the new school in Vicarage Road. The school continued until it's closure in 1986.

An historical and unusual event occurred at the school back on 7th February 1900, the first children's matinee in British Cinema took place at the school. Why this took place at Mickleover, which never even had a cinema, is not known. It wasn't until 1910 that Derby even had a cinema and sometime after that before regular children's matinees were shown

After three years of being empty, Derby City Council decided to give it to the people of Mickleover in 1989, to be used as a Community Centre.

There is now an excellent tearoom, staffed by volunteers, that serves morning coffee and light lunches for both local people and visitors alike.

The Vine Inn, where a vine once grew in the garden and trailed across the front of the building, next door was the old Smithy, now the Derbyshire Building Society. Below left is the Greenery Florists which used to be the Post Office and next door is the Scarsdale veterinary surgery, and below right we have Holly Cottage

This house on Vicarage Road once belonged to the Watsons, who were the wealthy corn merchants who also owned most of the land in the area, note the grand Victorian weather vane on the roof.

The Nags Head Pub on Uttoxeter Road, built in the 18^th century, during the 1970's a Pullman Railway Carriage graced the site as a restaurant

The Limes, a large white 19^th Century Villa standing in its own grounds and built in 1836 for the Ayers family who were the owners of the Masons Paint works on Nottingham Road. The Road to the Limes was once called Fennel Street, but the Ayers laid out a row lime trees to line the path to the house and subsequently changed the name to Limes Avenue.

The war memorial outside all saints church, which commemorates those who died during WW2, below we have Mickleover's latest addition the Super hospital being built in the grounds of the City Hospital, the picture below left is from the Radbourne Lane end of Station Road, which shows how prominent the building will, eventually be

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