Strelley Village

Coordinates: 52°58′19″N 1°14′42″W / 52.972°N 1.245°W / 52.972; -1.245
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This article is about the village. For the residential area of the City of Nottingham, see
Strelley Estate
.

Strelley
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNOTTINGHAM
Postcode districtNG8
Dialling code0115
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52°58′19″N 1°14′42″W / 52.972°N 1.245°W / 52.972; -1.245

Strelley is a village and former

A6002 road
.

Village

The village of Strelley was first recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086, where it appears as Straleia.[3] The name means 'clearing on a street or Roman road', though there is not known to be a Roman road in the area.[4]

The village has quite a secluded atmosphere as it is not on a through-road for traffic, although

pub
remains but has been partially modernised.

Strelley Hall

Strelley is also notable for being the upper terminus of one of the earliest recorded railway lines in the world, the

Elizabethan and Stuart times. Notable families involved in the early mining of Strelley included the Strelleys and the Byrons
; it was a Byron who sub-leased the pits to Huntingdon Beaumont.

During the 1960s much of the western part of Strelley parish was dominated by a huge opencast coal mine. After the opencast mine closed, the M1 motorway was constructed over the west of the parish. The village church All Saints' Church, Strelley can now easily be seen from the motorway just north of the Trowell services area. The civil parish was abolished in April 2023, so presently the area is unparished.[5]

Geography

The main television transmitter for Nottingham is in the area, which takes signals from Waltham.[6][7] The transmitter is also known as Swingate as it is east of Swingate Farm. The transmitter is next to the Kimberley parish boundary, and the Robin Hood Way. The transmitter base is at a height of around 130 metres, and near a trig point at Windmill Farm.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  2. Office for National Statistics
    . Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  3. ^ [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK5141/strelley/ Open Domesday: Strelley. Accessed 3 Mar 2023.
  4. ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.450.
  5. ^ "Nottinghamshire Registration District". www.ukbmd.org.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  6. ^ Freeview Nottingham transmitter
  7. ^ MB21 Nottingham transmitter
  • Smith, R. S. (1989), Early Coal Mining Around Nottingham 1500 – 1650, University of Nottingham (out of print).

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