Lambley, Nottinghamshire
| Lambley | |
| Nottinghamshire | |
|---|---|
 The old Post Office, Lambley | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK629453 |
| Location: | 53°0’4"N, 1°3’47"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,247 (2011) |
| Post town: | Nottingham |
| Postcode: | NG4 |
| Dialling code: | 0115 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Gedling |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Sherwood |
Lambley is a village near Nottingham, hardly touched by urbanisation, as it stands in the green belt cast about the county town, Nottingham, to the north-east of the city.
The population recorded in the 2011 census was 1,247.
Flint tools found in fields near Lambley point to Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement.
Name
The name 'Lambley' is the Old English words lamb leag, meaning 'lamb meadow'.[1][2][3] It appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Lambeleia.
Parish church
The parish church, Holy Trinity, dates from the 11th century, but it was largely rebuilt around 1470 as the result of a bequest by Ralph de Cromwell, the 3rd Baron Cromwell.[4]
Inside the church is a Jacobean rood screen. On the outer walls can be seen numerous grooves where arrows were sharpened during the Middles Ages before archery practice in the churchyard.
The church is a Grade I listed building.[5] It has been designated "one of the few entirely Perpendicular village churches in Notts, all of a piece and of felicitous proportions tall and narrow, all the windows high and spacious." The only earlier section is part of the west tower (12th–13th centuries). Rebuilding was financed by Ralph, Lord Cromwell.[6]
About the village
The Lambley Dumbles are secluded places noted for their geology and ancient woodland rich in flowers and ferns. They are accessed along three marked village trails.[7]
Wicketwood Hill was a wood in the Middle Ages, lying to the south of Lambley village.[8] Then it became a hamlet on the downhill part of Spring Lane. Newer maps show it as a wider residential area west of Wood Farm.[9]
Businesses in Lambley include a general store and others dealing with the motor trade, skiing equipment, bars and catering, accountancy, architecture, horticultural nursery, boarding kennels and caravan storage. There are two pubs: the Woodlark Inn and the Robin Hood Inn.
A crematorium, the fourth in Nottinghamshire, opened in 2017.
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References
- ↑ Gover, J. E. B.; Mawer, A. & Stenton, F.M.: 'Place-Names of Nottinghamshire , Part' (English Place-Names Society, 1940), page 171
- ↑ Mills, Anthony David: 'A Dictionary of British Place-Names' (Oxford University Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0-19-852758-9
- ↑ Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 284 ISBN 0198691033
- ↑ Lambley Holy Trinity: Southwell Churches Histoy] (University of Nottingham)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1264623: Church of the Holy Trinity (Grade I listing)
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, 1951; 1979 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09636-1
- ↑ Map: Lambley History Retrieved 14 July 2017. Template:Webarchive
- ↑ "Wicketwood Hill :: Survey of English Place-Names". http://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/id/53286be9b47fc40bd4000379-Wicketwood+Hill.
- ↑ "Lambley map". http://www.lambleyheritage.co.uk/lambmap2.pdf.
