Mickleover

Coordinates: 52°54′04″N 1°33′07″W / 52.901°N 1.552°W / 52.901; -1.552

Mickleover is the most westerly suburb of the city of Derby in the United Kingdom. It is located two miles (3 km) west of the city centre.

History

The earliest recorded mention of Mickleover (and its close neighbour, Littleover) comes in 1011, when an early charter has King Aethelred granting Morcar, a high-ranking Mercian Thegn, land along the Trent and in Eastern Derbyshire, including land in the Mickleover and Littleover areas, consolidating estates he had inherited in North-East Derbyshire from his kinsman through marriage, Wulfric Spot, who founded Burton Abbey on the Staffs-Derbys border.