Willington, Derbyshire
Willington | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Derby | |
Postcode district | DE65 | |
Dialling code | 01283 | |
Police | Derbyshire | |
Fire | Derbyshire | |
Ambulance | East Midlands | |
UK Parliament | ||
Website | Willington Parish Council | |
Willington is a town and
Geography
Willington is on the River Trent about 6 miles (10 km) southwest of Derby. The parish is within 0.5 miles (800 m) of the Staffordshire county boundary and the village is about 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Burton upon Trent.
The village is at the crossroads of the north–south
History
Toponymy
The
Manors
Willington, in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, comprised two estates as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, one held by the king in demesne, the other by Ralph FitzHubert:
Royal manor
de Willington's manor
The other manor appears to have been held from FitzHubert by the de Willington family, which took its name from the manor. It appears to have given this manor together with the advowson of the church to Repton Abbey, to whom the tithes were appropriated in 1223.[6] The de Willingtons were later seated at Yate[7] and Sandhurst in Gloucestershire, and later at Umberleigh in Devon. In about 1554 William Westcote conveyed this manor to Sir John Port (d.1557), founder of Repton School and of the hospital at Etwall, and in 1817 it continued to form part of the estate belonging to those foundations, which also held the tithes and advowson of the vicarage.[6]
Later history
In the 17th century Willington became the highest navigable port on the Trent.[
The railway was built in 1838, the railway station being called
The bridge over the Trent was opened on 7 August 1839, being the only one between Swarkestone and Burton. To commemorate the centenary of the abolishing of the bridge toll in 1898, an annual raft race has been held since 1998 from nearby Newton Solney along the River Trent to Willington's bridge.[9]
In 1995
Economy
A former cheese factory in 1920 became a reclaimed aluminium processing plant in 1964 dominating the southern part of the village for twenty years and it was hoped that aluminium car engines would be made nearby for the Toyota Manufacturing UK (TMUK). The site is now closed and the land for sale.
Due to the opening of the nearby Toyota car factory (on the A38/A50) in 1992 between Willington (on the former Derby airfield at Burnaston) and Findern, the village has prospered and expanded since the 1980s.
Local shops include a post office and newsagent, florist,
Willington has an engineering firm, a large GP practice, a Church of England parish church and Baptist Chapel[11] and the SOON Ministries literature charity, a large modern primary school and nearby in Etwall (within Willington's catchment area) an expanding secondary school, John Port Spencer Academy.
Opening in 2022 Talbot Turf was relocated from Hilton to Willington,[12] Talbot Turf have been sole provider of resurfacing work on many large-scale projects including Derby County FC, Wembley Stadium and the Olympic Stadium.[13]
Willington Power Station
In the 1950s, two
In the mid-1990s a pair of peregrine falcons nested in one of the site's huge cooling towers. Unlike many bird of prey breeding sites, this was widely publicised because of its impregnable location.
The power station was also the subject of a short documentary by Channel 4 titled "Drones in Forbidden Zones".[15]
Bus company
Blue Bus Services (Tailby & George Ltd) operated a depot on Repton Road from 1922. The company was privately owned until December 1973 when it was sold to Derby Corporation. Tragically, two years later on 5 January 1976, almost the entire original Blue Buses fleet was destroyed by a fire at the depot. The Saxon Grove and Tailby Drive residential estate was built on the site in the late 1980s (Named after Percy Tailby, co-owner of the Blue Bus Service).
Notable residents
- John Wetton (1949–2017), musician, member of King Crimson and founder of Asia.[citation needed]
Nature reserve
Although some of the former
Views of the nature reserve
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Cedar southwest of power station
See also
References
The geographic coordinates are from the Ordnance Survey.
- ^ a b "Area selected: South Derbyshire (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
- ^ "Civil parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ ISBN 0198691033.
- ISBN 0-14-143994-7.
- ^ Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.317
- ^ a b c Lysons, Daniel & Samuel, Magna Britannia, volume 5, Derbyshire, 1817, Parishes: Thorpe – Youlgreave, pp. 275–306 [1]
- ^ Robinson, W.J., West Country Manors, Bristol, 1930, pp.203–206, Yate Court
- ^ response to planning application mentioning said cedar
- ^ "2005 Willington Raft Race - Photographs".
- ^ "Derby Telegraph - 2021-01-25".
- ^ Willington Baptist Chapel
- ^ "Talbot Turf Relocation". www.talbotfarmlandscapes.co.uk.
- ^ "Talbot Turf Projects". www.talbotfarmlandscapes.co.uk.
- ^ "RWE AG - Willington FAQs". www.rwe.com. Archived from the original on 2 July 2013.
- ^ "Drones in Forbidden Zones – Episode Guide". Channel4.com. Channel 4. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ "Willington Gravel Pits". derbyshirewildlifetrust.org.uk. Retrieved 30 July 2013.