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Mapperley Rise. This steeply inclined road was constructed from its junction with Woodborough Road by the Nottingham Patent Brick Company (NPBC). Its purpose being to gain access for goods and members of the public to the Nottingham Suburban Railway at Sherwood railway station. The directors of NPBC and other brickmaking companies at Thorneywood, Nottingham, were, together with other business people, prime movers in getting the railway surveyed, planned and built. '
