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Eastwood, Nottinghamshire

Historical Description

Eastwood, a village and a parish in Notts. The village stands on the verge of the county, adjacent to the Erewash river and canal, and the Erewash Valley railway, near Langley-Mill station, 9 miles NW by N of Nottingham; and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Nottingham. The parish comprises 951 acres; population, 4363. "The Hall," a residence of the Walker-Munro family, is pleasantly situated in a large park. Coal is very extensively worked and contains many fossils, and malting and rope-making are also carried on. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £600 with residence. The church is modern, and in the Early Decorated style. There are Wesleyan, Congregational, and Primitive Methodist chapels. There is also a mission room, erected in 1886, a mechanics' institution, with library and reading rooms, and a cemetery.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyNottinghamshire 
Ecclesiastical parishEastwood St. Mary 
Poor Law unionBasford 
WapentakeBroxtow 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Eastwood from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Nottinghamshire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Eastwood are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Nottinghamshire newspapers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Nottinghamshire 1569 & 1614 is available on the Heraldry page.

DistrictBroxtowe
CountyNottinghamshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtNG16
Post TownNottingham

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