diff --git a/spacy/en/__init__.py b/spacy/en/__init__.py
index 4187a4890..9317bfa2d 100644
--- a/spacy/en/__init__.py
+++ b/spacy/en/__init__.py
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ your yours yourself yourselves
 """
 STOPWORDS = set(w for w in STOPWORDS.split() if w)
 
+
+# This is deprecated as of v100
+LOCAL_DATA_DIR = path.join(path.dirname(__file__), 'data')
+
+
 class English(Language):
     lang = 'en'