Tavistock, Delaware

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Coordinates: 39°48′20″N75°33′29″W / 39.80556°N 75.55806°W / 39.80556; -75.55806 Coordinates: 39°48′20″N75°33′29″W / 39.80556°N 75.55806°W / 39.80556; -75.55806
Country United States
State Delaware
County New Castle
Elevation
381 ft (116 m)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
  Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code(s) 302
GNIS feature ID217585 [1]

Tavistock is an unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. [1] [2] [3] Tavistock is located northwest of Mt. Lebanon Road to the west of Talleyville, between U.S. Route 202 and Brandywine Creek State Park. Husbands Run, a tributary to the creek runs through the neighborhood. Originally developed by Woodlawn Trustees, [4] [5] the community includes 176 homes and is partially governed by a non-profit civic association. [6]

History

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The land on which Tavistock is sited once belonged to E.B. Talley, for whom nearby Talleyville is named. It was acquired in 1906 Woodlawn Trustees, which had been created in 1901 by Quaker philanthropist William Poole Bancroft who realised that Wilmington would grow northward along the Brandywine Creek. To promote orderly growth, and subsidize land preservation and affordable housing Woodlawn developed residential communities set back from Brandywine Creek and west of Concord Pike (U.S. 202) including Alapocas, Woodbrook, Sharpley and Edenridge. Tavistock was developed in the mid 1960s and included a 1-acre, wooded lot for the former Talley homestead, which was envisioned as "focal point" of the community, but had deteriorated by 2015. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Tavistock". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
  2. "Woodlawn Trustees, Incorporated - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org.
  3. "These Are 30 of the Hottest Neighborhoods in Delaware". March 6, 2018.
  4. "Orderly planned Development". rockfordwoodlawn.com. Alapocas, Woodbrook, Sharpley, Edenridge, and Tavistock all are Woodlawn residential developments. In these developments, Woodlawn sold building lots to individuals and builders who followed an approved subdivision plan which included provisions for sidewalks, trees, and other basic infrastructures (sewer, water, storm drains, street curbing and paving.) In conjunction with these developments, Woodlawn made land available, at less than market value, for community uses, thus benefiting such groups as the Brandywine YMCA, county library, post office, Pilot School, Jewish Community Center, and the Baptist, Methodist, Unitarian and Catholic churches.
  5. https://tavistockcivic.com/history
  6. "Tavistock". Welcome to Tavistock.
  7. Milord, Maureen (January 23, 2015). "Talley family landmark threatened". The News Journal (Delaware Online). Retrieved September 8, 2021.