Edenridge, Delaware Explained

Official Name:Edenridge, Delaware
Pushpin Map:Delaware#USA
Pushpin Label:Edenridge
Pushpin Label Position:left
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:United States
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Delaware
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:New Castle
Timezone:Eastern (EST)
Utc Offset:-5
Timezone Dst:EDT
Utc Offset Dst:-4
Elevation Ft:354
Coordinates:39.7986°N -75.5622°W
Area Code:302
Blank Name:GNIS feature ID
Blank Info:217584

Edenridge is an unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States in the Brandywine Hundred, north of Wilmington.

Geography

Edenridge lies west of Concord Pike (U.S. Route 202) and east of Brandywine Creek State Park.[1] Edenridge is located near the intersection of Mt. Lebanon Road and Sharpley Road between of Talleyville and Rockland. It is part of the ZIP Code Tabulation Area for 19803.[2] [1]

The grounds of Mount Lebanon Methodist Episcopal Church lie on a western edge of the subdivision.[3] [4] Husbands Run, a tributary of Brandywine Creek, flows through the community. Woodley Park abuts the neighborhood.[5]

History

Like neighboring Sharpley, Woodbrook and Tavistock, Edenridge was developed by Woodlawn Trustees.[6] [7] [8] The neighborhoods were included in the master plan for development of the Brandywine Hundred created by Charles Wellford Leavitt in 1922.[9] When originally laid in the mid-1960s the neighborhood was 11 streets on 52 acres.[10] [11] Land sales from the properties were used to subsidize the maintenance of Woodlawn housing in the Flats neighborhood in Wilmington.[12] The first house went up in 1966.[13] Many of the homes were custom or semi-custom built for the original owners.[1] Deed restrictions were established in 1964.[4] In 1994, many residents felt that regulations originally imposed by Woodlawn Trustees were beneficial.[13]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: These Are 30 of the Hottest Neighborhoods in Delaware. George. Pam . March 6, 2018. Edenridge, Tavistock, Sharpley and Woodbrook: Like pearls on a string, these neighborhoods in zip code 19803 are west of Concord Pike, roughly between Del. 141 and around Mt. Lebanon Road. Bordered by the DuPont Country Club golf course, bucolic Rockford Road, Woodley Park and Brandywine Creek State Park and laced with wide swaths of green space, they are a stone’s throw of shopping and restaurants on the commercial strip. They give a deep breath of green on the very edge of the sprawl...Many builders created custom or semi-custom houses for the original owners..
  2. Web site: 2010 Census Tracts and ZCTAs, New Castle County, DE.
  3. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=84000845}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Mount Lebanon Methodist Episcopal Church ]. Thomas J. Walters and Valerie Cesna). December 1983.
  4. Web site: Declaration of Restrictions March 10, 1964.
  5. Web site: New Castle County cancels controversial deer hunt. Xerxes. Wilson. The News Journal.
  6. Web site: Woodlawn development plan draws old foes. Maureen. Milford. The News Journal. Some of the residential communities Woodlawn developed along the west side of U.S. 202 include Alapocas, Woodbook, Sharpley, Edenridge and Tavistock..
  7. Web site: 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..
  8. Web site: Real estate and housing; Hagley Museum and Library Archives. findingaids.hagley.org.
  9. Web site: Woodlawn Trustees, Inc. records, Group I 2424.I . Hagley Museum . July 14, 2020 . During the 1950s the neighborhood developments of Alapocas, Woodbrook and Sharpley were begun, followed by the construction of Edenridge and Tavistock in the 1970s. Records indicate that the developments in Brandywine Hundred had been part of a Master Plan designed by Charles Wellford Leavitt in 1922, and later revised by Whitman, Requardt and Associates in 1973. . September 12, 2021 . September 13, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210913141057/https://hagley-aspace-pdf.s3.amazonaws.com/2424.I.pdf . dead .
  10. News: Spaces:The home is built in Edenridge development . The News Journal . August 14, 2014 . September 15, 2021.
  11. Web site: Delaware Spaces: Roomy home in Edenridge. Maureen. Milford. The News Journal.
  12. Web site: Brandywine Hundred, 1918-1990 . Hagley Museum . September 12, 2021 . Monies from property sales and rental fees were used to maintain and renovate the low-cost housing originally constructed in Wilmington's "Flats" area..
  13. News: Crosland . Philip P.. A little bit of Eden Edenridge residents believe building rules imposed by Woodlawn Trustees have been a benefit . The News-Journal . February 17, 1994 .

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