Lawn Villas

These houses were built off Top Road in the 1920s. They were built on land which belonged to the large house called "The Lawns" which still stands at the corner of Top Road and Church Lane. A villa was originally a Roman country estate but now means "a detached or semidetached urban residence with yard and garden space". The houses were all built with, for the time, substantial gardens.

Moor Lane

This is an old road which probably refers either to when Calow had a moor or Duckmanton Moor. Moor Farm is in the area (but not to be confused with Moor Farm at Old Works Lane).

North Road

This road cuts the village north to south. Built in the 1950s to link Church Lane to Allpits Road it has council-built family homes and pensioners' bungalows. It originally was the road where Doctor Young had his surgery, Mabel Hives had a hairdressing salon. Further down there were two police houses, one of which housed Sergeant Wells and his family. The two houses were linked by the Police Station. Calow CofE Primary School was built there in 1973 after the original stone-built school on Top Road was demolished.

Nook Lane

A nook is a remote sheltered spot. It is indeed a small lane running near the White Hart on Top Road. It is probably quite an old road and appears on the 1897 Ordinance Survey map.

Old School Lane

This road and the houses were built on the site of the old CofE Primary School in the 1990s.

Old Works Lane

Again, another old road running off Top Road at almost a 90 degree angle to Nook Lane. Another Moor Farm (not the one near Moor Lane) is almost at the end of this road.

Orchid Close

This street was built, alongside others, all of which were named after plants or flowers. It was built in the 1950s & 60s on the site of the former Proctor's Rose Nursery which "uprooted" and moved to Brookside in Chesterfield.

Parker Avenue

Parker is one of the old family names in Calow, e.g. the shop now called "Calow Cobs" at the junction of Top Road & Dark Lane was owned by Parkers and can be seen on one of the Francis Frith photographs taken late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Clifford Parker was a founder member of Calow Scouts. So, presumably the street was named in this family's honour.

Plover Way

Plover Hill and Plover Wood are clearly marked on the nineteenth century ordinance survey map. The land covered from where the post Second World War council houses were built, e.g. Allpits Road, to where Crow Lane is (then called Wetlands Lane with Crow Lane being much further towards Chesterfield).