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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Nottinghamshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Eastwood St. Mary | |
Poor Law union | Basford | |
Wapentake | Broxtow |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Eastwood from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Eastwood (St. Mary))
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:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Nottinghamshire newspapers online:
- Nottingham Evening Post
- Nottinghamshire Guardian
- Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties
- Nottingham Gazette, and Political, Literary, Agricultural & Commercial Register for the Midland Counties
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Nottinghamshire 1569 & 1614 is available on the Heraldry page.