London Road is one of the oldest neighbourhoods in Lethbridge, Alberta. [1] It is located in South Lethbridge and borders downtown, as well as Midtown and the Upper East Side. It is an L-shaped area defined by 6 Avenue, Stafford Drive, 3 Avenue, 13 Street, 9 Avenue and Scenic Drive. [2]
As early as 1885, plots in the London Road area were surveyed as part of the original Lethbridge town survey. The area surveyed included a five-block area between 4 and 9 streets and 6 and 7 Avenues. Roughly half of all houses in the neighbourhood were built between 1890–1914, a period of time that saw rapid population growth throughout Western Canada. The remainder of the original housing occurred primarily after World War II. [1] Most current development consists of renovations and replacements.
Land use in London Road is primarily residential, with 80% of all uses being of a single family residence or single family with basement suite. [2]
Parks in the neighbourhood include:
The Oldman River valley parks system is a continuous collection of eight urban parks in the Oldman River valley of Lethbridge, Alberta, 100 metres (330 ft) below the prairie level. The parks were created in the 1980s as part of the city's Urban Parks Project. Today they are a combined 16 square kilometres (6.2 sq mi) in size and comprise one of the largest urban park systems in North America, and the third largest in Canada.
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