Meadow End

Plot 6 of the 1806 enclosure map of Gotham formed part of the Near Meadow with Jacket Leys Close to the west. Indeed when this Close was sold in 1857 the road that became Meadow End was called Jacket Close Street. In the 1891 census there were 19 households listed. The heads of two-thirds of these households were employed in the gypsum works, some as labourers others as miners.

Meadow End is first mentioned in the electoral registers for 1887. At that time there were two main classes of voters, the occupation voters and the ownership voters who had freehold property and land. John Haywood had a freehold property and land in Jacket’s Leys. It is his name given to two cottages, numbers 3 and 5, called Haywood Cottages.

It is most likely that the name Meadow End came from its proximity to the Near Meadow when houses were first built on this narrow road, just seven feet six inches wide.

Meadow End gives access from the Nottingham Road to the Primitive Methodist Chapel built in 1870. It also gives access to The Gas, a footpath through to Curzon Street originally Bag Lane.