From the Mary Smedley Papers donated to the society shortly before her death in 2020.
Piggy Hill
This is the short path from Bridge Street to Cluster Road, so called because Ryde’s pork butchers shop was here on Bridge Street with a slaughter house behind. The earliest reference to this area calls it St. George’s Place.
Cow Hill
One of the oldest parts of Belper. It was a nail making area, re-named Hillside Rise in the 1960s.
The Gutter
Now the Short Street area; Marsh Lane and Top Common were marshy ground and were drained down into this area, which fed into the Coppice Brook.
Chapel Hollow
This is now called St John’s Road. Topside of St John’s Chapel, which is the oldest building in Belper. It was dedicated to St. Thomas before the reformation