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Ardmore, sometimes called "Ardmore Park" for the city park of the same name within the neighborhood, is a neighborhood in the extreme south Buckhead area of Atlanta, between Peachtree Road, on the east, railroad tracks and the Atlanta BeltLine on the west, Collier Road to the north and Brookwood to the south. Though distinct from Brookwood and Collier Hills, the neighborhoods are often linked as they share a border and location along Collier Road and Peachtree Street/Road just north of Midtown.
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- ↑ "Route 400 / Glenridge Conn", Neighborhood Scout
- ↑ 2010 US census figures from walkscore.com
- ↑ "NPU B map, City of Atlanta" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 13, 2011.
- ↑ "One of the founders of modern North Buckhead". www.nbca.org.
- 1 2 "North Buckhead Residents Look Back to Area's Past". Buckhead, GA Patch. October 31, 2011.
