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Scout Lane (now Woodthorpe Drive). Another ancient byway that crossed the clay fields from which the Nottingham Patent Brick Company dug clay. At one point quarrying extended well past Scout Lane, and along the western facing slope of Mapperley Plains in a north easterley direction into what was locally known as 'Breck Hill Fields'. The brick company cut beneath Sherwood Vale, Scout Lane and Breck Hill, constructing substantial brick lined tunnels through which were laid narrow gauge railway lines. The clay was transported in trains of four wheeled tipping trucks hauled by a combination of steel ropes and petrol driven locomotives to be processed at the two main plants - one with entrance at Woodborough Road; the other entered from Mapperley Rise. '
