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Maurice Drive: a truncated part of the vision of the directors of the Mapperley Brick Company for the reuse of previously worked-out lands for housing development. There had been plans to take the road through worked-out wooded land to Sherwood Vale. Roads given the names of Mapperley Rise, Gordon Rise, Morley Avenue and Sherwood Vale having been laid out for house building with a public transport link to the City and elsewhere being provided from the new railway station at Sherwood. Either the railway came too soon or, the speed of housebuilding was too slow for passenger receipts to grow. Added to which Nottingham Corporation's decision to rapidly expand the electric tramways had either not been known or, had been ignored, by the promoters of the Nottingham Suburban Railway. The land close to the station bounded by Maurice Drive, Mapperley Rise and Sherwood Vale was not built on in any significant way until 1960. Until 1958 large sections of it had been rented to allotment holders and fortytwo years after the last local train service had been withdrawn and the station closed in 1916. '