Edenridge, Delaware
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| Coordinates: 39°47′55″N 75°33′44″W / 39.79861°N 75.56222°W / 39.79861; -75.56222 | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Delaware |
| County | New Castle |
| Elevation | 354 ft (108 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| Area code | 302 |
| GNIS feature ID | 217584[1] |
Edenridge is an unincorporated communityinNew Castle County, Delaware, United States[1] in the Brandywine Hundred, north of Wilmington.
Edenridge lies west of Concord Pike (U.S. Route 202) and east of Brandywine Creek State Park.[2] 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.[3][2]
The grounds of Mount Lebanon Methodist Episcopal Church lie on a western edge of the subdivision.[4][5] Husbands Run, a tributary of Brandywine Creek, flows through the community. Woodley Park abuts the neighborhood.[6]
Like neighboring Sharpley, Woodbrook and Tavistock, Edenridge was developed by Woodlawn Trustees.[7][8][9] The neighborhoods were included in the master plan for development of the Brandywine Hundred created by Charles Wellford Leavitt in 1922.[10] When originally laid in the mid-1960s the neighborhood was 11 streets on 52 acres.[11][12] Land sales from the properties were used to subsidize the maintenance of Woodlawn housing in the Flats neighborhood in Wilmington.[13] The first house went up in 1966.[14] Many of the homes were custom or semi-custom built for the original owners.[2] Deed restrictions were established in 1964.[5] In 1994, many residents felt that regulations originally imposed by Woodlawn Trustees were beneficial.[14]
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.
Some of the residential communities Woodlawn developed along the west side of U.S. 202 include Alapocas, Woodbook, Sharpley, Edenridge and Tavistock.
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.
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.
Monies from property sales and rental fees were used to maintain and renovate the low-cost housing originally constructed in Wilmington's "Flats" area.
